Mixed Evolutionary Bag (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Mixed Evolutionary Bag

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Phylogenetic tree of a protein which is evolutionarily 'mixed' between the archaeal and bacterial domains, precluding assignment in the LUCA. Other proteins separate the domains onto different branches, suggesting they are ancient.

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Berkemer and McGlynn 2020. CC BY 4.0

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