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Evolutionary microbiology

the inferred ancestral population from which all known cellular lineages descend, reconstructed from shared genes.

In evolutionary microbiology, last universal common ancestor refers to the inferred ancestral population from which all known cellular lineages descend, reconstructed from shared genes. This meaning comes from Weiss (2016) in Nature Microbiology.[1]

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Weiss, M. C., Sousa, F. L., Mrnjavac, N., Neukirchen, S., Roettger, M., Nelson-Sathi, S., & Martin, W. F. (2016). The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor. Nature Microbiology, 1(9). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.116

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