Interpreting the universal phylogenetic tree.

By Carl R. Woese. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2000

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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Whole Proteome Prokaryote Phylogeny Without Sequence Alignment: A K-String Composition Approach (2003, background): “According to C. Woese (2000) lateral transfer events have not only taken place in evolution, but also served ‘‘the major, if not sole, evolutionary source of true innovation.’’ However, the extent of lateral transfer has been increasingly restricted to smaller and smaller gene pools of closer and ”
Phylogenetics and Material Cultural Evolution (2007, background): “In the natural world, such reticulations occur primarily in bacteria as a consequence of horizontal gene transfer and during hybridization in eukaryotes (Woese 2000; Andersson 2005).”
Microbial Cellulose Utilization: Fundamentals and Biotechnology (2002, neutral): “eucaryotes [503, 752]).”
Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer. (2002, background): “Phylogenetic implications have also been explored by us and by Martin (1999) and Woese (2000), among others.”
Exploring prokaryotic diversity in the genomic era (2002, background): “LGT appears to affect the informational genes (those involved in transcription and translation) to a lesser extent than metabolic and other operational genes, leading to the hypothesis that a core set of vertically transmitted informational genes define organismal phylogeny [26].”
Classification and phylogeny of hydrogenases. (2001, background): “It might be a remnant of early stages in the evolutionary process [351].”
What are bacterial species? (2002, background): “Microbial systematists have built a universal tree of life, such that any newly discovered organism can be placed near its closest relatives (18, 104).”
The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles (2003, neutral): “Moreover, the unclear nature of the LUCA ( Woese 1998, 2000, 2002 ) might imply a trifurcation for the three domains in the tree of life (Di Giulio 2000a) (thus closer to Fig. 1a than Fig. 1b), since in the divergence process there would not be a real tree structure (as indicated in Fig. 1b) but the”
The Phage Proteomic Tree: a Genome-Based Taxonomy for Phage (2002, methodology): “tory? The 16S rDNA locus has been used both as a predictor of evolutionary relationships and for measuring uncultured microbial diversity (66).”
Gene transfer into the fungi (2011, background): “Carl Woese has suggested that the maintenance of a universal genetic code across the tree of life has provided an important pre-requisite to enable gene transfer (Woese, 2000), effectively allowing distantly related organisms ‘to trade in the same currency’ as other species.”