THE PHYLOGENY OF PROKARYOTES
THE PHYLOGENY OF PROKARYOTES
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DOI:
10.1126/science.6771870
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
WOESE, CR
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作者:
FOX, GE;STACKEBRANDT, E;WOESE, CR
For the 1st time a single experimental approach, 16S rRNA sequence characterization, was used to develop an overview of phylogenetic relationships in the bacterial world. The technique permits the tracing of relationships back to the common ancestor of all extant life. This 1st glimpse of bacterial phylogeny reveals a world whose roots appear to span more than 3 billion years. A deep phylogenetic split exists among the bacteria, which necessitates their division into 2 major lines of descent, the archaebacteria and the true bacteria (or eubacteria). Most ancient bacterial phenotypes are anaerobic and aerobic phenotypes have arisen several times. Photosynthetic phenotypes are also extremely ancient. Many nonphotosynthetic groups appear to have arisen from photosynthetic ancestry, which is reason to question the generally held belief that the 1st bacteria were anaerobic heterotrophs. The 2 ultimate lines of bacterial descent are no more closely related to each other than either is to the cytoplasmic aspect of the eukaryotic cell. However, in that the eukaryotic cells is a phylogenetic chimera, it cannot be seen as line of descent comparable to the 2 bacterial lines.sbd.although some of its individual parts can be so viewed. In this way, the chloroplast and perhaps the mitochondrion are each eubacterial, and at least 1 ribosomal protein is archaebacterial. A 3rd line of descent that is neither eubacterial nor archaebacterial is represented in the 18S ribosomal RNA.