Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life Export

@article{citeulike:527948, abstract = {We have developed an automatable procedure for reconstructing the tree of life with branch lengths comparable across all three domains. The tree has its basis in a concatenation of 31 orthologs occurring in 191 species with sequenced genomes. It revealed interdomain discrepancies in taxonomic classification. Systematic detection and subsequent exclusion of products of horizontal gene transfer increased phylogenetic resolution, allowing us to confirm accepted relationships and resolve disputed and preliminary classifications. For example, we place the phylum Acidobacteria as a sister group of {delta}-Proteobacteria, support a Gram-positive origin of Bacteria, and suggest a thermophilic last universal common ancestor. 10.1126/science.1123061}, author = {Ciccarelli, Francesca D. and Doerks, Tobias and von Mering, Christian and Creevey, Christopher J. and Snel, Berend and Bork, Peer}, citeulike-article-id = {527948}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123061}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5765/1283}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16513982}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16513982}, day = {3}, doi = {10.1126/science.1123061}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {bacterial-evolution, eukaryote-evolution, plant-evolution, protozoan-evolution, tree-of-life}, month = {March}, number = {5765}, pages = {1283--1287}, posted-at = {2008-04-22 01:05:17}, priority = {2}, title = {Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123061}, volume = {311}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:527948 L3 - citeulike-article-id:527948 N2 - We have developed an automatable procedure for reconstructing the tree of life with branch lengths comparable across all three domains. The tree has its basis in a concatenation of 31 orthologs occurring in 191 species with sequenced genomes. It revealed interdomain discrepancies in taxonomic classification. Systematic detection and subsequent exclusion of products of horizontal gene transfer increased phylogenetic resolution, allowing us to confirm accepted relationships and resolve disputed and preliminary classifications. For example, we place the phylum Acidobacteria as a sister group of {delta}-Proteobacteria, support a Gram-positive origin of Bacteria, and suggest a thermophilic last universal common ancestor. 10.1126/science.1123061 IS - 5765 JF - Science SN - 1095-9203 EP - 1287 TI - Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life VL - 311 SP - 1283 KW - bacterial-evolution KW - eukaryote-evolution KW - plant-evolution KW - protozoan-evolution KW - tree-of-life AU - Ciccarelli, Francesca AU - Doerks, Tobias AU - von Mering, Christian AU - Creevey, Christopher AU - Snel, Berend AU - Bork, Peer PY - 2006/03/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123061 ER -