A Phylogenetic Analysis of Aquifex pyrophilus

S. Burggraf; G. J. Olsen; K. O. Stetter; C. R. Woese

doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80207-9

A Phylogenetic Analysis of Aquifex pyrophilus

S. Burggraf, G. J. Olsen, K. O. Stetter, C. R. Woese

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Abstract

The 16S rRNA of the bacterion Aquifex pyrophilus, a microaerophilic, oxygen-reducing hyperthermophile, has been sequenced directly from the PCR amplified gene. Phylogenetic analyses show the Aq. pyrophilus lineage to be probably the deepest (earliest) in the (eu) bacterial tree. The addition of this deep branching to the bacterial tree further supports the argument that the Bacteria are of thermophilic ancestry.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	352-356
Number of pages	5
Journal	Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(11)80207-9
State	Published - 1992

Keywords

16S rRNA
Bacteria
Deep branching
Evolution
Maximum likelihood
Thermophilic origin

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Microbiology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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