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SUBMITTER: Nasir A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4164138 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nasir Arshan A Kim Kyung Mo KM Caetano-Anollés Gustavo G
Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) 20140831
The origins of diversified life remain mysterious despite considerable efforts devoted to untangling the roots of the universal tree of life. Here we reconstructed phylogenies that described the evolution of molecular functions and the evolution of species directly from a genomic census of gene ontology (GO) definitions. We sampled 249 free-living genomes spanning organisms in the three superkingdoms of life, Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, and used the abundance of GO terms as molecular charact ...[more]