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Lu Fan

Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

Southern University of Science and Technology
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China

About Lu Fan

I study microbial ecology and evolution.

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Biooceanography Microbial ecology Biodiversity Theoretical ecology Evolutionary ecology Chemical origin of life Phylogenetics Coevolution Molecular evolution Evolutionary theory

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A call for super caution in phylogenetic studies on the origin of mitochondria

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Behind the paper

A call for super caution in phylogenetic studies on the origin of mitochondria

Systematic taxon sampling and cross-justification provides to-date the most robust phylogenetic support to the hypothesis that mitochondria originated from an ancient alphaproteobacterium.