TY - JOUR T1 - On phylogenetic branch lengths distribution and the late acquistion of mitochondria JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/064873 SP - 064873 AU - Alexandros A. Pittis AU - Toni Gabaldón Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/20/064873.abstract N2 - In a recent article, Martin et. al. [1] criticize several methodological aspects of our recent study on the timing of the acquisition of mitochondria [2]. Here we show that our results are independent of the model-based partitioning of the data. In addition, we assess the robustness of our inferences by analyzing data from Martin et. al. ER -