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The evidence that the tree of life is not rooted within the Archaea is unreliable: a reply to Skophammer et al.

Massimo Di Giulio1.   

Abstract

Skophammer et al. [Skophammer, RG, Herbold, CW, Rivera, MC, Servin, JA, Lake, JA. 2006. Evidence that the root of the tree of life is not within the Archaea. Mol Biol Evol, 23, 1648-1651] report evidence suggesting that the tree of life cannot be rooted within the Archaea domain. I have observed that an alignment used in their analysis is not reliable and that, therefore, their conclusions are unjustified.

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Year:  2007        PMID: 17395404     DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.01.024

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Gene        ISSN: 0378-1119            Impact factor:   3.688


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