The genome of M. acetivorans C2A is by far the largest of all sequenced
archaeal genomes.
Using heavy - duty computers to sift through this mess, the team ultimately reconstructed 7280 bacterial and 623
archaeal genomes — about a third of which were new to science.
Using heavy - duty computers to sift through this mess, the team reconstructed 7280 bacterial and 623
archaeal genomes.
This study sheds new light onto
archaeal genome evolution, the deep roots of archaea and the phylogenetic placement of DPANN.
This study sheds new light onto
archaeal genome evolution,
Woese had wanted to sequence
an archaeal genome since the early 1980s.
Not exact matches
The mix of nuclear genes would come from the
archaeal guest and later from the mitochondrion, which forfeited parts of its
genome to the nucleus over time.
Spang et al. review the diversity of Archaea and their
genomes, metabolomes, and history, which clarifies the biology and placement of recently discovered
archaeal lineages.
Efforts to obtain and study
genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about
archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.
By using new methods to obtain
genome data from microbes that can not be grown in the laboratory, we identified a new
archaeal group that is related to the host cell from which eukaryotic cells evolved.
Comparison of
archaeal and bacterial
genomes: computer analysis of protein sequences predicts novel functions and suggests a chimeric origin for the archaea.
Ten years ago in the early days of
genome sequencing, researchers scoured the
genomes of 580 bacterial and
archaeal species for large genes.
Now available in the Early Edition of PNAS: Tom Williams (University of Bristol, UK) in collaboration with, among others, the Ettema - lab reports on using integrative modeling of gene and
genome evolution to root the
archaeal tree of life and to resolve the metabolism of the earliest
archaeal cells.
Tom Williams (University of Bristol, UK) in collaboration with, among others, the Ettema - lab reports on using integrative modeling of gene and
genome evolution to root the
archaeal tree of life and to resolve the metabolism of the earliest
archaeal cells.