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Science 30 November 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5855, pp. 1390 - 1391
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151657
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
Paradigm for Life

James O. McInerney and Davide Pisani

Lateral gene transfer may have spurred microbial evolution, producing a pattern of evolution that resembles a network, rather than a tree.

The authors are in the Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. E-mail: james.o.mcinerney{at}nuim.ie

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