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Rings Reconcile Genotypic and Phenotypic Evolution within the Proteobacteria.
Genome biology and evolution - 10 Dec 2015
Lake James A, Larsen Joseph, Sarna Brooke, de la Haba Rafael R, Pu Yiyi, Koo HyunMin, Zhao Jun, Sinsheimer Janet S
Abstract excerpt
Although prokaryotes are usually classified using molecular phylogenies instead of phenotypes after the advent of gene sequencing, neither of these methods is satisfactory because the phenotypes cannot explain the molecular trees and the trees do not fit the phenotypes. This scientific crisis still exists and the profound disconnection between these two pillars of evolutionary biology--genotypes and...
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