Being Aquifex aeolicus: Untangling a hyperthermophile's Checkered Past
Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important factor contributing to the evolution of prokaryotic genomes. The Aquificae are a hyperthermophilic bacterial group whose genes show affiliations to many other lineages, including the hyperthermophilic Thermotogae, the Proteobacteria, and the Archaea. Here...
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Language: | en |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14412 |