Tree of Life (Evolution)
From the scala naturae to the symbiogenetic and dynamic tree of life
... straight-forward tree, if one cuts it down like Kutschera does in Figure 4 - the origi- nal illustration shows a structure with no trunk but multiple roots (Figure ...moral tree, pruning out whatever idea ...
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Depicting the tree of life in museums: guiding principles from psychological research
... circular tree of life (see Figure 4) is part of the Boston Museum of Science’s permanent exhibit, Human Body Connection, in the section on human evolution that opened in ...This tree, a cladogram ...
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Early evolution without a tree of life
... the tree of ...single tree, and ii) the relationship of eukaryotes to prokaryotes is also not tree-like in nature because the endosymbiotic ori- gins of organelles introduces lineage mergers and ...
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Visualizing biological data in museums : Visitor learning with an interactive tree of life exhibit
... the tree of ...invoke tree of life concepts and terminology in their open-ended ...phylogenetic tree diagram and endorse ideas of common ancestry in closed-ended ...
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Structural analysis of polarizing indels: an emerging consensus on the root of the tree of life
... one detail at a time instead of assuming they are a quixotic pursuit. If these macro-phylogenies are truly incompatible it should not be possible to get them to converge on a sin- gle tree as we believe we have ...
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Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s “Travels in the Great Tree of Life”
... of Life,” as a vague ethical or environmental concept relating to the Bible, biodiversity, the ecosystem, conservation, or the Tree of Life in Disney ...the Tree of Life as a cladogram, ...
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Novel soil-inhabiting clades fill gaps in the fungal tree of life
... This study extends and illustrates previous findings that the soil habitat harbors thousands of undescribed fungal taxa [8, 10, 13, 14], which we place to >30 previously unrecognized well-supported fungal lineages. ...
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Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life?
... host tree of life can we detect shifts in rates of microbiota evolution? Are these shifts related to evolutionary transitions of host traits, such as diet? Are different groups of microbes following ...
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Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest
... the tree of life (see [23] for a conceptual discussion) span the entire range from persistent denial of the major importance of HGT for evolutionary biology [26,27]; to ‘moderate’ overhaul of the ...
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Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things
... the tree of life are distinct in process and pattern, and we simply have to admit it more openly and take measures in our research to accommo- date that state of ...traditional tree-monism, even ...
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Preserving the Tree of Life
... whole tree of life, not the arbitrary place at which species are named”, I agree that biodiversity must correspond to the overall lineage forming structure of life but disagree that species are ...
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The fundamental units, processes and patterns of evolution, and the Tree of Life conundrum
... a tree of life crisis: is the history of life shaped like a tree in the sense that Darwin envisaged or is it not because unbe- knownst to Darwin different genes have different histo- ...the ...
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Evolution of the genus Mimivirus based on translation protein homology and its implication in the tree of life.
... phylogenetic tree of life as a new branch or sometimes as a fourth domain of life (taking into account here the proteins that are unique to them) (Raoult and Forterre, 2008; Boyer et ...phylogenetic ...
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Exploring Phylogeny at the Tree of Life Web Project
... The Project began as a personal project of David Maddison, a faculty member in the University of Arizona’s Department of Entomology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Maddison, in the course of his Ph.D. ...
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Rapid progress on the vertebrate tree of life
... vertebrate tree of life has been surpris- ingly rapid, increasing polynomially since the early 1990s, when molecular phylogenetic approaches became widely ...vertebrate tree of life are ...
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Dating branches on the Tree of Life using DNA
... In conclusion, assigning dates to branches on the ‘Tree of Life’ remains problematic, because both of the available sources of information are far from perfect. Of one point, however, we can be quite ...
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Quantitatively Partitioning Microbial Genomic Traits among Taxonomic Ranks across the Microbial Tree of Life
... ABSTRACT Widely used microbial taxonomies, such as the NCBI taxonomy, are based on a combination of sequence homology among conserved genes and histor- ically accepted taxonomies, which were developed based on observable ...
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Humanization in decolonizing educational research: a tree of life metaphor
... The Tree of Life metaphor seems to be in contrast to rationalist scientific ...a tree metaphor as might be found in the scientific tradition, the Tree of Life recognizes more than ...
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Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity
... Our survey of cancer-like phenomena across the tree of life (figure 2) reveals that cheating on some forms of cooperation is more common than for others. For example, cheating of proliferation inhibition ...
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Alienness: Rapid Detection of Candidate Horizontal Gene Transfers across the Tree of Life
... Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transmission of genes between organisms by other means than parental to offspring inheritance. While it is prevalent in prokaryotes, HGT is less frequent in eukaryotes and ...
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