Rooted tree key to understanding bacterial evolution, new study suggests

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May 6, 2021, 2:00 pm803 ptsInteresting
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 of the last bacterial common ancestor.

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