Phylogenomic analysis of proteins that are distinctive of <it>Archaea </it>and its main subgroups and the origin of methanogenesis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Archaea are highly diverse in terms of their physiology, metabolism and ecology. Presently, very few molecular characteristics are known that are uniquely shared by either all archaea or the different main groups within archaea....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gupta Radhey S, Gao Beile
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-03-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/86