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A genomic perspective on the relationship between the Aquificales and the epsilon-Proteobacteria
1Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium. Tom.Coenye@UGent.be
Abstract:
The goal of this study was to determine to what extent the Aquificales are related to the epsilon-Proteobacteria. The genome sequence of several members of this group as well as the genome sequence of Aquifex aeolicus are available. In this study we used information extracted from those whole-genome sequences to gain further insights into the relationships between these organisms, including the fraction of shared putative orthologous protein-encoding genes, dinucleotide relative abundance values and the sequences of the 16S rRNA gene and 20 housekeeping genes. The results of our analyses show that it is not straightforward to come to a consistent picture of the phylogenetic position of the order Aquificales but our data clearly show that there is no particularly close relationship between A. aeolicus and the epsilon-Proteobacteria as (i) they do not share more genes with each other than do other distantly related organisms and (ii) they do not share significant sequence similarity in many macromolecules. In addition, there is considerable evidence that confirms the placement of the Aquificales near the root of the bacterial tree.
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