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Archaeal genetics – the third way

Allers, Thorsten; Mevarech, Moshe

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THORSTEN ALLERS THORSTEN.ALLERS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Archaeal Genetics

Moshe Mevarech



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 Mar 29, 2024
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

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