What Is the Tree of Life?

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A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic.

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Doolittle, W. F., & Brunet, T. D. P. (2016, April 1). What Is the Tree of Life? PLoS Genetics. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005912

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