Bacteroidetes, Chlorobi and Fibrobacteres Species
Phylogenetic Trees
- Tree for Concatenated Protein sequences
- Character Compatibility tree (or Clique) for Bacteroidetes-Chlorobi Species
- Gyrase B Tree for bacterial species showing the relationship of Fibrobacter-Bacteroidetes and Chlorobi
- ATP synthase α tree for bacterial species
- FtsK tree for bacterial species
- RpoC tree for bacterial species showing the grouping together of Fibrobacter-Bacteroidetes and Chlorobi
Selected References:
Griffiths, E. and Gupta, R.S. (2001) The use of Signature Sequences in Different Proteins to determine the branching order of bacterial divisions: Evidence that Fibrobacter diverged at a similar time to Chlamydia and the Cytophaga-Flavobacteria-Bacteriodes Division. Microbiology, 147: 2611-2622. [PDF]
Gupta, R.S. (2004) The phylogeny and signature sequences characteristics of Fibrobacteres, Chlorobi and Bacteroidetes. Crit. Rev. in Microbiology 30: 123-143. [PDF]
Gupta, R. S. and Lorenzini, E. (2007) Phylogeney and Molecular Signatures (Conserved proteins and indels) that are specific for the Bacteriodetes and Chlorobi Species. BMC Evol. Biol. May 8, 7(1), 71. [Abstract]
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Bacterial (Prokaryotic) Phylogeny Webpage (March 2007). http://www.bacterialphylogeny.com/index.html