Phylogenetic classification and the universal tree¶
Doolittle, W. F. (1999). Phylogenetic classification and the universal tree. Science, 284(5423), 2124-2129.
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- Branching and Merging
- Reticulate evolution, in which the tree of life folds back on itself through introgression and lateral transfer, is branching and merging at the genomic scale, and the ease of re-merging falls off sharply as reproductive isolation accumulates.
This sourceDocuments lateral (horizontal) gene transfer as a reticulating force that folds the tree of life back on itself, supplying the genomic re-merging of separated lineages alongside cladogenesis.
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Abstract documents lateral gene transfer and chimerism making the history of life unrepresentable as a tree, backing the folding-back clause; it says nothing of reproductive isolation.
“Molecular phylogeneticists will have failed to find the "true tree," not because their methods are inadequate or because they have chosen the wrong genes, but because the history of life cannot properly be represented as a tree.”
- Reticulate evolution, in which the tree of life folds back on itself through introgression and lateral transfer, is branching and merging at the genomic scale, and the ease of re-merging falls off sharply as reproductive isolation accumulates.
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