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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Main Author: Eveleigh, Robert
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14412