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Science 28 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5846, pp. 1875 - 1876
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149593

Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Deep Questions in the Tree of Life

Patrick J. Keeling

Now that the genome of a unicellular parasite has been deduced, can it resolve the debate on the origin of eukaryotes?


The author is in the Botany Department, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada. E-mail: pkeeling{at}interchange.ubc.ca

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