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Abstract
The past year has seen several attempts to reconstruct the proteome of the universal ancestor of all life on the basis of comparisons of contempory genomes. However, increasing evidence for lateral gene transfer could mean that such attempts are based on an incorrect understanding of evolution.Mesh:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10851188 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00096-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Struct Biol ISSN: 0959-440X Impact factor: 6.809