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OpinionThe tree of one percentTal Dagan  and William Martin Institute of Botany, University of Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2006,
7:118doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-118
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1 November 2006 |
Subject areas: Evolution, Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies Abstract
Two significant evolutionary processes are fundamentally not tree-like in nature - lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes and endosymbiotic gene transfer (from organelles) among eukaryotes. To incorporate such processes into the bigger picture of early evolution, biologists need to depart from the preconceived notion that all genomes are related by a single bifurcating tree. | 
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