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Proving universal common ancestry with similar sequences.

Leonardo de Oliveira Martins1, David Posada.   

Abstract

Douglas Theobald recently developed an interesting test putatively capable of quantifying the evidence for a Universal Common Ancestry uniting the three domains of life (Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria) against hypotheses of Independent Origins for some of these domains. We review here his model, in particular in relation to the treatment of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and to the quality of sequence alignment.

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Keywords:  common ancestry; model selection; tree of life

Year:  2012        PMID： 23814665      PMCID： PMC3694314          DOI： 10.4081/eb.2012.e5

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Trends Evol Biol        ISSN： 2036-2641


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