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The unstable evolutionary position of Korarchaeota and its relationship with other TACK and Asgard archaea.

Yang LiuYuhan Huang
Published in: mLife (2022)
The applications of marker gene concatenation have been advanced to resolve the key questions in the Tree of Life. However, the interphylum evolutionary relationship between Korarchaeota of TACK ( Thaumarchaeota , Aigarchaeota , Crenarchaeota , Korarchaeota ) and Asgard archaea remains uncertain. We applied a marker gene ranking procedure to examine their evolutionary history. Our updated trees showed confident placements of (1) Korarchaeota as the basal branch to other TACK archaea and as a sister group to Asgard archaea; (2) Njordarchaeota at basal branch to Korarchaeota instead of within Asgard archaea. They highlight the importance of evaluating marker genes for phylogeny inference of the Archaea domain.
Keyphrases
  • genome wide
  • dna methylation
  • genome wide identification
  • copy number
  • gene expression
  • single cell