Gene. 2007 Jun 1;394(1-2):105-6. Epub 2007 Feb 12.

The evidence that the tree of life is not rooted within the Archaea is unreliable: a reply to Skophammer et al.

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Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics Adriano Buzzati Traverso, CNR, Via P. Castellino, 111, 80131 Naples, Napoli, Italy.

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Skophammer et al. [Skophammer, RG, Herbold, CW, Rivera, MC, Servin, JA, Lake, JA. 2006. Evidence that the root of the tree of life is not within the Archaea. Mol Biol Evol, 23, 1648-1651] report evidence suggesting that the tree of life cannot be rooted within the Archaea domain. I have observed that an alignment used in their analysis is not reliable and that, therefore, their conclusions are unjustified.

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