My first "reviewed preprint" on @eLife !
A Timeline of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversification in the Ocean
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/88268
Lots of hard work from former PhD student in my lab Carolina Martinez. Part of a collaboration with @pseudacris
We are enjoying the new process so far and working on revisions to address some of the concerns raised by reviewers.
John McCutcheon
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in reply to Small Things Considered • • •the check "bookmarked ✔️ " was meant completely seriously. Your study is way above my horizon, but gives me a valuable clue for a project I am pursuing for a long time: conservation of synteny of the large cluster of ribosomal protein genes (with SecY in the middle) and flanking genes. the cluster seems to be largely conserved since the split in Bacteria and Archaea.
here is a readable version > https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7hhubv7yk6gjl5/secY_context_02.2.pdf
secY_context_02.2.pdf
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in reply to Small Things Considered • • •@STCmicrobeblog very interesting! I believe I see Thermatoga there -Synergistota too? According to some of our earlier work they are the most basal branching bacteria, so perhaps they can provide insight into the ancestral state
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38/12/5514/6358142
Phylogenetic Signal, Congruence, and Uncertainty across Bacteria and Archaea
Martinez-Gutierrez, Carolina A (Oxford University Press)Small Things Considered
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in reply to Frank Aylward • • •my focus at the moment is on the close proximity of the α-operon and the rpsI/rplM gene pair, which is also seen in some archaea. but of course I can't nail down the bacteria/archaea split by doing this.
Frank Aylward
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