The tree of life might be rooted in the branch leading to Nanoarchaeota

Gene

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 108-113

  Di Giulio, Massimo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Absence of operons as a primitive trait; Ancestor of Archaea: ancestor of Eukarya; Ancestral stages; Ancestral traits; Genome as a molecular fossil; Introns early; LUCA

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENOMICS; NANOARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; THUJA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER;

EUKARYOTA; NANOARCHAEOTA; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS;

EID: 34548471983     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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