What Is the Tree of Life?

Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors

(2015) Gregory P Fournier et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling

(2015) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ten years of pan-genome analyses

(2015) George Vernikos et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Insights from 20 years of bacterial genome sequencing

(2015) Miriam Land et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Toward the Darwinian transition: Switching between distributed and speciated states in a simple model of early life

(2015) Hinrich Arnoldt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

The universal tree of life: an update

(2015) Patrick Forterre   Frontiers in Microbiology

The pan-genome as a shared genomic resource: mutual cheating, cooperation and the black queen hypothesis

(2015) Matthew S. Fullmer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Pangenome Evidence for Extensive Interdomain Horizontal Transfer Affecting Lineage Core and Shell Genes in Uncultured Planktonic Thaumarchaeota and Euryarchaeota

(2014) Philippe Deschamps et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

Prochlorococcus: the structure and function of collective diversity

(2014) Steven J. Biller et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Is the Tree of Life the Best Metaphor, Model, or Heuristic for Phylogenetics?

(2014) David A. Morrison   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Genome reduction as the dominant mode of evolution

(2013) Yuri I. Wolf et al.   BIOESSAYS

Seeing the Tree of Life behind the phylogenetic forest

(2013) Pere Puigbò et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

MetaRef: a pan-genomic database for comparative and community microbial genomics

(2013) Katherine Huang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Tree of Life: Metaphor, Model, and Heuristic Device

(2013) David P. Mindell   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Infinitely Many Genes Model for the Distributed Genome of Bacteria

(2012) Franz Baumdicker et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogeny and beyond: Scientific, historical, and conceptual significance of the first tree of life

(2012) N. R. Pace et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

Darwin and the Tree of Life: the roots of the evolutionary tree

(2012) Nils Petter Hellström   ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY

Trees before and after Darwin

(2010) Pascal Tassy   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

The Complexity Hypothesis Revisited: Connectivity Rather Than Function Constitutes a Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2010) O. Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Darwin was right

(2009) Daniel Dennett et al.   NEW SCIENTIST

Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome

(2009) Pascal Lapierre et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS