Sentences with phrase «eukaryotic tree»

Evolutionary questions (WP6) include the addition of uncultured lineages to retrieve a more complete eukaryotic Tree of Life, understanding the evolution of genes and pathways across different lineages, and population genomics in a given lineage or species group.

We find homologs in genomes across the eukaryotic tree of life, map known and de novo protein functionalities, and examine co-evolution between proteins and protein motifs.

The eukaryotic tree of life from a global phylogenomic perspective.Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology.

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Our current concept of the origin of the eukaryotic cell is in flux, however, and an evolutionary sequence that appears simple when conceptualized on a phylogenetic tree diagram may be far more complex and interesting in reality.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

The eukaryotic trunk of the tree of life sprouted branches leading to organisms ranging from yeasts to humans.

These newly identified organisms might have a big impact on our understanding of the deeper branches of the tree of life giving us new hints about the emergence of the eukaryotic cell.