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., Fournier, Gregory P., Green, Anna G., Gogarten, J. Peter, Lapierre, Pascal
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66213
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1605-5455