The findings, published in the journal Science today, demonstrate how integrating vertical descent and horizontal gene transfer can be used to infer the root of the bacterial tree and the nature ...

The current debate that the root of the tree may split eukaryotes into bikonts and unikonts is discussed in the text. Lineages containing species with comparatively well-studied hydrogenosomes (H ...

Consider the great ape example I worked through with an Excel spreadsheet (link above). These are Jukes-Cantor distances based on number of mtDNA sequence differences. [See Glossary and pp. 91-93 of ...

Susannah B. Johnson-Fulton, Linda E. Watson, Phylogenetic Systematics of Cochlospermaceae (Malvales) Based on Molecular and Morphological Evidence, Systematic Botany, Vol. 42, No. 2 (April-June 2017), ...