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Griffiths,E. & Gupta,R.S. (2001). The use of signature sequences in different proteins to determine the relative branching order of bacterial divisions: evidence that Fibrobacter diverged at a similar time to Chlamydia and the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteriodes division.  Microbiology, 147, 2611-2622. [PDF]

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