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SUBMITTER: Davin AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912509 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature ecology & evolution 20180402 5
Biodiversity has always been predominantly microbial, and the scarcity of fossils from bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes has prevented a comprehensive dating of the tree of life. Here, we show that patterns of lateral gene transfer deduced from an analysis of modern genomes encode a novel and abundant source of information about the temporal coexistence of lineages throughout the history of life. We use state-of-the-art species tree-aware phylogenetic methods to reconstruct the history ...[more]