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Erin A Tripp1, Ning Zhang2, Harald Schneider3
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Abstract:
Much of the undescribed biodiversity on Earth is microbial, often in mutualistic or pathogenic associations. Physically associated and coevolving life forms comprise a symbiome. We propose that systematics research can accelerate progress in science by introducing a new framework for phylogenetic analysis of symbiomes, here termed SYMPHY (symbiome phylogenetics).
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