FALSE TREES. “Rampant horizontal gene flow among prokaryotes falsifies the tenet that the evolutionary history of all organisms—and their genes—can be reflected unambiguously by a single, tree-like pattern. It is important to remember that Pace’s universal tree is a tree of small subunit rRNA genes, not a tree of life.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022