The importance and ubiquity of HGT notwithstanding, comprehensive comparative analyses of phylogenetic trees have shown that ... All known eukaryotic cells contain mitochondria, or related ...

The last eukaryotic ancestor (LECA ... it seemed as though fossils fell out of favor, she says, but many phylogenetic trees rely on a methodology called a molecular clock that uses fossils to anchor ...

According to the endosymbiosis hypothesis, eukaryotic mitochondria-targeted ... We used NJ, MP, QP and ME methods to construct phylogenetic trees. NJ trees were based on pairwise distances between ...

Work in the Katz lab aims to elucidate principles of eukaryotic evolution through phylogenetic reconstruction ... Assembling the Eukaryotic Tree of Life through Analyses of Eukaryotic Microbes ...

“This is the most exciting and important paper on big questions about eukaryotic origins and the tree of life ... all life forms have been split into three groups on the phylogenetic tree of life: ...

I have written about these methods and the Tree of Life work mentioned above, some phylogenetic commentary, on eukaryotic microbial genomics and horizontal gene transfer, several genomics projects, ...