Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Filipa L. Sousa, Mayo Roettger, Nabor Lozada-Chávez, Thorsten Thiergart, Arnold Janssen, David Bryant, Giddy Landan, Peter Schönheit, Bettina Siebers, James O. McInerney and William F. Martin ()
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Shijulal Nelson-Sathi: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Filipa L. Sousa: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Mayo Roettger: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Nabor Lozada-Chávez: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Thorsten Thiergart: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Arnold Janssen: Mathematisches Institut, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
David Bryant: University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Giddy Landan: Genomic Microbiology Group, Institute of Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Peter Schönheit: Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Bettina Siebers: Faculty of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany
James O. McInerney: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
William F. Martin: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Nature, 2015, vol. 517, issue 7532, 77-80

Abstract: A comparison of protein-coding genes from 134 archaeal genomes with their homologues in 1,847 bacterial genomes reveals that, during evolution, genes are transferred more often from bacteria to archaea than vice versa, and that gene influxes from bacteria can bring about the origin of major archaeal groups.

Date: 2015
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