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SUBMITTER: Williams TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6942926 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature ecology & evolution 20191209 1
Hypotheses about the origin of eukaryotic cells are classically framed within the context of a universal 'tree of life' based on conserved core genes. Vigorous ongoing debate about eukaryote origins is based on assertions that the topology of the tree of life depends on the taxa included and the choice and quality of genomic data analysed. Here we have reanalysed the evidence underpinning those claims and apply more data to the question by using supertree and coalescent methods to interrogate >3 ...[more]