Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 12, 1-6, Copyright © 1995 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
GB Golding and RS Gupta
The phylogenetic position of the archaebacteria and the place of eukaryotes
in the history of life remain a question of debate. Recent studies based on
some protein-sequence data have obtained unusual phylogenies for these
organisms. We therefore collected the protein sequences that were available
with representatives from each of the major forms of life: the
gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, archaebacteria, and
eukaryotes. Monophyletic, unrooted phylogenies based on these sequence data
show that seven of 24 proteins yield a significant
gram-positive-archaebacteria clade/gram-negative- eukaryotic clade. The
phylogenies for these seven proteins cannot be explained by the traditional
three-way split of the eukaryotes, archaebacteria, and eubacteria. Nine of
the 24 proteins yield the traditional gram-positive-gram-negative
clade/archaebacteria-eukaryotic clade. The remaining eight proteins give
phylogenies that cannot be statistically distinguished. These results
support the hypothesis of a chimeric origin for the eukaryotic cell nucleus
formed from the fusion of an archaebacteria and a gram-negative bacteria.
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Protein-based phylogenies support a chimeric origin for the eukaryotic genome
Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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