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Lake, J. A., C. W. Herbold, M. C. Rivera, J. A. Servin, and R. G. Skophammer   Rooting the Tree of Life Using Nonubiquitous Genes. Molec. Biol. Evol., 24:130-136, (2007).

Skophammer, R. G., C. W. Herbold, M. C. Rivera, J. A. Servin, and J. A. Lake.  Evidence that the Root of the Tree of Life is Not within the Archaea. Molec. Biol. Evol., 23:1648-1651 (2006). 

Simonson, A.B., J. A. Servin, R. G. Skophammer, C. W. Herbold, M. C. Rivera, and J. A. Lake. Decoding the Genomic Tree of Life. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.., 102, 6608-6613, (2005). 

Lake, J. A., J. E. Moore, A. B. Simonson, and M. C. Rivera, Fulfilling Darwin’s Dream. Pp. 184-206. In Microbial Evolution: Concepts and Controversies. J. Sapp, (ed). Oxford University Press, New York. (2005). 

Rivera, M.C. and J.A. Lake, The Ring of Life Provides Evidence for a Genome Fusion Origin of Eukaryotes. Nature, 431, 152-155, (2004) 

Lake, J. A. and M. C. Rivera, Deriving the Genomic Tree of Life in the Presence of Horizontal Gene Transfer: Conditioned Reconstruction,  Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:681-690, (2004). 

Rivera, M. C., R. Jain, J. E. Moore, and J.A. Lake, Horizontal Gene Transfer Accelerates Genome Innovation and Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1598-1602, (2003). 

Jain, R., M. C. Rivera, J. E. Moore, and J. A. Lake.  Non-clonal Evolution of Microbes.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79:27-32 (2003). 

Lake, J. A., R. Jain, J. Moore, and M. C. Rivera, Genome Evolution and the Impact of the Physical Environment, Pp. 121-130. In Evolution on Planet Earth, L. Rothschild, (ed). Academic Press, London (2002). 

Jain, R., M. C. Rivera, J. E. Moore, and J. A. Lake.  Horizontal Gene Transfer in Microbial Genome Evolution. Theor. Popul. Biol., 61, 489-495 (2002). 

Jain, R., M. C. Rivera, and J. A. Lake.  Horizontal Transfer Among Genomes: The Complexity Hypothesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 96, 3801-3806, (1999). 

Lake, J. A., R. Jain, and M. C. Rivera.  Mix and Match in the Tree of Life.  Science, 283, 2027, (1999). 

Rivera, M. C., R. Jain, J. Moore, and J. A. Lake.  Genomic Evidence for Two Functionally Distinct Gene Classes.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95, 6239-6244, (1998). 

Lake, J. A., R. Jain, J. Moore, and M. C. Rivera.  Hyperthermophilic and Mesophilic Origins of the Eukaryotic Genome.  In Thermophiles: The Keys to Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life?  Wiegel, J. and M. W. W. Adams, (eds.), Taylor and Francis Press, London, (1998). 

Lake, J. A., and M. C. Rivera.  The Prokaryotic Origin of Eukaryotes.  In Horizontal Gene Transfer. M. Syvanen and C. I. Kado, (eds), Chapman and Hall, New York, (1998). 

Lake, J. A., and M. C. Rivera. Methanococcus Genome, Science, 273:1058, (1996).

Aguinaldo, A. M., J. M. Turbeville, L. Linford, M. C. Rivera, J. Garey, R. Raff, and J. A. Lake. Evidence for a Clade of Nematodes, Arthropods and other Moulting Animals.  Nature, 387, 489-493 (1997).  

Shankweiler, G. W., A. Scheinman, T. Atha, M. C. Rivera, A. Aguinaldo and J. A. Lake.  Purification of Ribosomes, Ribosomal Subunits and Polysomes. In Cell Biology Laboratory Manual, Spector, D. L., Goldman, R. D., and Leinwand, L. A., (eds.), Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, (1998). 

Lake, J. A., and M. C. Rivera,  The Prokaryotic Ancestry of Eukaryotes.  In Evolution of Microbial Life,  Roberts, D. McL., Sharp P., Alderson G., and Collins, M., (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK., (1996). 

Rivera, M. C. and J. A. Lake.  On the Phylogenetic Position of Methanopyrus kandleri, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 46, 348-351, (1996). 

Lake, J. A., and M. C. Rivera. Was the Nucleus the First Endosymbiont? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 91, 2880, (1994). 

Rivera, M. C., and J. A. Lake. Evidence that Eukaryotes and Eocyte Prokaryotes are Immediate Relatives. Science, 257, 74-76, (1992). 

Lake, J. A., and M. C. Rivera, Phylogenetic Relationships of Organisms, Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 1, 6046, (1992). 

Oakes, M., A. Scheinman, M. Rivera, D. Soufer, G. Shankweiler, and J. Lake,  Evolving Ribosome Structure and Function: rRNA and the Translation Mechanism, in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology vol. LII, 675-685, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, (1987).

 

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