RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 On phylogenetic branch lengths distribution and the late acquistion of mitochondria
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 064873
DO 10.1101/064873
A1 Alexandros A. Pittis
A1 Toni Gabaldón
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/20/064873.abstract
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.