Origins of life: Common ancestry put to the test
Abstract
The question of whether or not all life on Earth has an ultimate common origin is a subtle one, complicated by the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer. It has now been tackled with a formal statistical analysis.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1038/465168a
- Bibcode:
- 2010Natur.465..168S