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A Rooted Net of Life

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Direct, September 2011
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Title
A Rooted Net of Life
Published in
Biology Direct, September 2011
DOI 10.1186/1745-6150-6-45
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Authors

David Williams, Gregory P Fournier, Pascal Lapierre, Kristen S Swithers, Anna G Green, Cheryl P Andam, J Peter Gogarten

Abstract

Phylogenetic reconstruction using DNA and protein sequences has allowed the reconstruction of evolutionary histories encompassing all life. We present and discuss a means to incorporate much of this rich narrative into a single model that acknowledges the discrete evolutionary units that constitute the organism. Briefly, this Rooted Net of Life genome phylogeny is constructed around an initial, well resolved and rooted tree scaffold inferred from a supermatrix of combined ribosomal genes. Extant sampled ribosomes form the leaves of the tree scaffold. These leaves, but not necessarily the deeper parts of the scaffold, can be considered to represent a genome or pan-genome, and to be associated with members of other gene families within that sequenced (pan)genome. Unrooted phylogenies of gene families containing four or more members are reconstructed and superimposed over the scaffold. Initially, reticulations are formed where incongruities between topologies exist. Given sufficient evidence, edges may then be differentiated as those representing vertical lines of inheritance within lineages and those representing horizontal genetic transfers or endosymbioses between lineages.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 7%
Brazil 3 4%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Mexico 2 2%
Germany 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
Denmark 1 1%
Uruguay 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 65 77%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 20 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 21%
Student > Master 14 17%
Professor 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 5 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 47 56%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 11%
Computer Science 4 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 4%
Chemistry 2 2%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 8 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2018.
All research outputs
#3,215,332
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Biology Direct
#126
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,586
of 141,254 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Direct
#4
of 11 outputs
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