Article
Gene Acquisitions from Bacteria at the Origins of Major Archaeal Clades Are Vastly Overestimated.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Feb 2016
Groussin Mathieu, Boussau Bastien, Szöllõsi Gergely, Eme Laura, Gouy Manolo, Brochier-Armanet Céline, Daubin Vincent
Abstract excerpt
In a recent article, Nelson-Sathi et al. (NS) report that the origins of major archaeal lineages (MAL) correspond to massive group-specific gene acquisitions via HGT from bacteria (Nelson-Sathi et al. 2015. Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria. Nature 517(7532):77-80.). If correct, this would have fundamental implications for the process of diversification in microbes....
Topics
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Archaeal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Phylogeny