| Title | Comparative analysis of a genome fragment of an uncultivated mesopelagic crenarchaeote reveals multiple horizontal gene transfers |
| Author | López-García, P.; Brochier, C.; Moreira, D.; Rodríguez-Valera, F. |
| Source | Environmental Microbiology, 6(1), p.19- 34, . Publisher: Blackwell Science, Oxford, United Kingdom. ISSN: 1462- 2912 |
| Publication Date | 2004 |
| Notes | In English GeoRef Acc. No: 287633 |
| Index Terms | Drake Passage; Atlantic Ocean--South Atlantic; Southern Ocean; Atlantic Ocean; biochemistry; deep-water environment; ecology; genetics; molecular biology; phylogeny; plankton; South Atlantic |
| Abstract | Analyses sequence of 33.3 kbp genomic fragment of crenarchaeote from 500 m deep picoplankton collected from waters of Antarctic Polar Front in Drake Passage, and compares its organization with those of other marine crenarchaeota from more superficial waters. Despite certain gene conservation, there was considerable gene shuffling when compared to all crenarchaeotal environmental clones available to date. Phylogenetic analyses of individual genes suggest existence of multiple horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events between archaeal kingdoms and also between the two prokaryotic domains. |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00533.x |
| Publication Type | journal article |
| Record ID | 84791 |