A rooted phylogeny of bacteria resolves early evolution
- Date
- August 25 (Thu) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2022 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Adrian Davin (JSPS Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
- Venue
- via Zoom
- Language
- English
- Host
- Jeffrey Fawcett
Bacteria are the most diverse life forms on Earth and yet, we know surprisingly little about their early evolution. In this talk, I will explain how phylogenetic reconciliations and models of genome evolution can be used to answer some of the most interesting open questions in biology, such as the nature of the last bacterial common ancestor or whether a tree is a meaningful representation of evolution in the presence of abundant lateral gene transfer.
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