Reassessment of the Lineage Fusion Hypothesis for the Origin of Double Membrane Bacteria

Reassessment of the Lineage Fusion Hypothesis for the Origin of Double Membrane Bacteria

In 2009, James Lake introduced a new hypothesis in which reticulate phylogeny reconstruction is used to elucidate the origin of Gram-negative bacteria (Nature 460: 967-971). The presented data supported the Gram-negative bacteria originating from an ancient endosymbiosis between the Actinobacteria a...

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Main Authors: Swithers, Kristen S. (Author), Fournier, Gregory P. (Contributor), Green, Anna G. (Author), Gogarten, J. Peter (Author), Lapierre, Pascal (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2011-10-11T21:27:05Z.
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