A brief note concerning archaebacterial phylogeny

G. J. Olsen, C. R. Woese

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Abstract

Critical analysis of the recently proposed alternative to the normal archaebacterial tree, the new eocyte tree, shows that the latter's central topology, in which the eubacteria branch from an entirely different section of the unrooted archaebacterial tree than the eukaryotes, is consistent with an artifact. The effects of the alignment used and the particular composition of the sequence quartets analyzed to infer this tree are discussed in detail.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)119-123
Number of pages5
JournalCanadian journal of microbiology
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1989

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Microbiology
  • Immunology

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