Archaeal genetics – the third way

Allers, Thorsten; Mevarech, Moshe

Abstract

For decades, archaea were misclassified as bacteria on account of their prokaryotic morphology. Molecular phylogeny eventually revealed that archaea, like bacteria and eukaryotes, are a fundamentally distinct domain of life. Genome analyses have confirmed that archaea share many features with eukaryotes, particularly in information processing, and therefore can serve as streamlined models for understanding eukaryotic biology. Biochemists and structural biologists have embraced the study of archaea but geneticists have been more wary, despite the fact that genetic techniques for archaea are quite sophisticated. It is high time for geneticists to start asking fundamental questions about our distant relatives.

Citation

Allers, T., & Mevarech, M. (2005). Archaeal genetics – the third way. Nature Genetics, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg1504

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2004
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Sep 13, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 13, 2017
• Journal: Nature Genetics
• Print ISSN: 1061-4036
• Electronic ISSN: 1546-1718
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg1504
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/703248
• Publisher URL: https://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v6/n1/full/nrg1504.html
• Contract Date: Sep 13, 2017