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. 2009 Jun 15;106(Suppl 1):10048–10055. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901109106

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Life with multiple start-ups and a bottleneck. In this example, all current life (C1, C2, …, Cn) traces back to a single common ancestor, but this does not require that 2 of the 3 start-ups (S1, S2, S3) fail to have descendants now. Reticulation leading to a bottleneck (B) is the reason why.