The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

2016/07/25 by Madeline C. Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac +6 · 1,073 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Abiogenesis #Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism #Archaea #Biology #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.116

published in Nature Microbiology 1(9), 16116 (Nature Portfolio)

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