The first lines of divergence in the Bacteria domain were the hyperthermophilic organisms, the Thermotogales and the Aquificales, and not the mesophilic Planctomycetales

BioSystems

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-19

  Barion, Sacha ^a   Franchi, Marco ^a   Gallori, Enzo ^a   Di Giulio, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deep divergences; Hyperthermophilic ancestor of Bacteria; LUCA; Origin of life; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein concatenamers

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUIFICALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGENESIS; BOOTSTRAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOTOGALES;

AQUIFICALES; PLANCTOMYCETALES; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 33845466409     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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