Reassessment of the lineage fusion hypothesis for the origin of double membrane bacteria.

In 2009, James Lake introduced a new hypothesis in which reticulate phylogeny reconstruction is used to elucidate the origin of gram-negative bacteria (Nature 460: 967-971). The presented data supported the gram-negative bacteria originating from an ancient endosymbiosis between the Actinobacteria a...

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Main Authors: Kristen S Swithers, Gregory P Fournier, Anna G Green, J Peter Gogarten, Pascal Lapierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21876769/?tool=EBI