Bacteria Beef Up New Tree of Life

The new tree of life includes previously unknown species throughout the bacterial branches.

By Jonathon Keats
Dec 12, 2016 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:59 AM
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This new tree includes previously unknown species throughout the bacterial branches. It also features a new bacterial branch, Candidate Phyla Radiation, detailed above. | Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Hug Et al. Nature microbiology/10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.48/11 April 2016

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