PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alexandros A. Pittis
AU  - Toni Gabaldón
TI  - On phylogenetic branch lengths distribution and the late acquistion of mitochondria
AID  - 10.1101/064873
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 064873
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/20/064873.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/20/064873.full
AB  - In a recent article, Martin et. al. [1] criticize several methodological aspects of our recent study on the timing of the acquisition of mitochondria [2]. Here we show that our results are independent of the model-based partitioning of the data. In addition, we assess the robustness of our inferences by analyzing data from Martin et. al.