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Diagram showing how the UCA and IO hypotheses can be represented by phylogenies, according to Theobald (2010a). Although the UCA assumes that all sequences are connected by one single phylogeny, the IO posits that there is no branch (represented in black) connecting the two domains. It is mathematically equivalent to an infinite length for this branch (see online Supplementary Text S1).
