Abstract:
:The phylogenies for each of the protein-coding genes from the Methanococcus jannaschii genome were surveyed to determine the history of the major groups of life. For each gene, homologous sequences from other archaea, eucarya, and Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria were collected and aligned, and a phylogeny was reconstructed with a maximum-likelihood algorithm. The majority of significant phylogenies favor the eucarya and the archaca as sister groups. A smaller, but still substantial, portion of these significant phylogenies favor an eucarya/Gram-negative clade. These results indicate that support for the early history of life is not unequivocal. A chimeric origin of eukaryotes or an ancient, massive horizontal transfer of genes from Gram-negative bacteria to eucarya can explain many of the observed phylogenies.
journal_name
Mol Biol Evoljournal_title
Molecular biology and evolutionauthors
Ribeiro S,Golding GBdoi
10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025983subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-07-01 00:00:00pages
779-88issue
7eissn
0737-4038issn
1537-1719journal_volume
15pub_type
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