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3. An Unexpected Fundamental Lesson About Living Cells Less Than 50 Years Ago.

 

·      Discovery and characterization of Archaea: (Olsen and Woese 1996; Zillig, Prangishvilli et al. 1996; DeLong 1998; Kyrpides and Ouzounis 1999; Kuypers, Blokker et al. 2001; Nesbo, Boucher et al. 2001; Seitz, Haseltine et al. 2001; Brugger, Redder et al. 2002; Hickey, Conway de Macario et al. 2002; Huber, Hohn et al. 2002; She, Brugger et al. 2002; Slesarev, Mezhevaya et al. 2002; Cobucci-Ponzano, Trincone et al. 2003; Fadiel, Lithwick et al. 2003; Prangishvili 2003; Snyder, Stedman et al. 2003; Verhees, Kengen et al. 2003; Waters, Hohn et al. 2003; Albers, Koning et al. 2004; Kelman and Kelman 2004; Ouhammouch 2004; Reeve, Bailey et al. 2004; Rice, Tang et al. 2004; She, Shen et al. 2004; Vaughan, Wickstead et al. 2004; Woese 2004; Bartlett 2005; Blount and Grogan 2005; Huang, Xu et al. 2005; Kelman and White 2005; Lundgren and Bernander 2005; Prangishvili and Garrett 2005; Sandman and Reeve 2005; Siebers and Schonheit 2005; Barry and Bell 2006; Brasier, McLoughlin et al. 2006; Breuert, Allers et al. 2006; Costa, Pape et al. 2006; Lillestol, Redder et al. 2006; Maaty, Ortmann et al. 2006; McCliment, Voglesonger et al. 2006; Ortmann, Wiedenheft et al. 2006; Prangishvili, Forterre et al. 2006; Prangishvili, Garrett et al. 2006; Soppa 2006; Allen, Tyson et al. 2007; Filee, Siguier et al. 2007; Frols, Gordon et al. 2007; Gao and Gupta 2007; Koga and Morii 2007; Makarova, Sorokin et al. 2007; Philippot, Van Zuilen et al. 2007; Robinson and Bell 2007; Valentine 2007; Elkins, Podar et al. 2008; Jahn, Gallenberger et al. 2008; Janssen and Kirs 2008; Lindas, Karlsson et al. 2008; Lipp, Morono et al. 2008; Ng, Zolghadr et al. 2008; Podar, Anderson et al. 2008; Samson, Obita et al. 2008; Slomovic, Portnoy et al. 2008; Soppa, Baumann et al. 2008; Vestergaard, Shah et al. 2008; Wang, Yu et al. 2008; Albers and Pohlschroder 2009; Basta, Smyth et al. 2009; Bize, Karlsson et al. 2009; Dekas, Poretsky et al. 2009; Ettema and Bernander 2009; Galand, Casamayor et al. 2009; Ghosh and Dam 2009; Gunbin, Afonnikov et al. 2009; Hartung and Hopfner 2009; Keller, Leulliot et al. 2009; Narayanan, Krishnakumar et al. 2009; Nercessian, Marino Buslje et al. 2009; Pietila, Roine et al. 2009; Sanchez, Drechsler et al. 2009; Schlesner, Miller et al. 2009; Shah, Hansen et al. 2009; Baker, Comolli et al. 2010; Berg, Kockelkorn et al. 2010; Bernander, Lundgren et al. 2010; Calo, Kaminski et al. 2010; Cortez, Quevillon-Cheruel et al. 2010; Darwin and Hofmann 2010; de Koning, Blombach et al. 2010; Dyall-Smith and Doolittle 2010; Ellen, Zolghadr et al. 2010; Forterre 2010; Fujishima, Sugahara et al. 2010; Humbard, Miranda et al. 2010; Krupovic, Gribaldo et al. 2010; Makarova, Yutin et al. 2010; Schleper and Nicol 2010; Sun and Caetano-Anolles 2010; Ajon, Frols et al. 2011; Albers and Meyer 2011; Anderson, Scheuner et al. 2011; Atkinson, Hauryliuk et al. 2011; Beattie and Bell 2011; Benelli and Londei 2011; David and Alm 2011; Dueber, Costa et al. 2011; Ettema, Lindas et al. 2011; Garrett, Vestergaard et al. 2011; Gill and Brinkman 2011; Guy and Ettema 2011; Jarrell, Walters et al. 2011; Kelly, Wickstead et al. 2011; Khomyakova, Bukmez et al. 2011; Soppa 2011; White 2011; Atomi, Imanaka et al. 2012; Cadillo-Quiroz, Didelot et al. 2012; Godde 2012; Ishino and Ishino 2012; Kim and Caetano-Anolles 2012; Lombard, Lopez-Garcia et al. 2012; Naor, Lapierre et al. 2012; Demaere, Williams et al. 2013; Frols 2013; Lindas and Bernander 2013; Manica and Schleper 2013; Marguet, Gaudin et al. 2013; Maupin-Furlow 2013; Naor and Gophna 2013; Offre, Spang et al. 2013; Orell, Frols et al. 2013; Podar, Makarova et al. 2013; Putti, Calandra et al. 2013; Quax, Voet et al. 2013; Samson, Xu et al. 2013; Snyder, Samson et al. 2013; Spang, Martijn et al. 2013; Weinzierl 2013; Yelton, Comolli et al. 2013; Bang, Ehlers et al. 2014; Becker, Seitzer et al. 2014; Brugere, Borrel et al. 2014; Caetano-Anolles, Nasir et al. 2014; Gaci, Borrel et al. 2014; Kelman and Kelman 2014; Makarova, Wolf et al. 2014; Nasir, Kim et al. 2014; Vestergaard, Garrett et al. 2014; Wu, Liu et al. 2014; Zerulla and Soppa 2014; Castelle, Wrighton et al. 2015; Krupovic, Cvirkaite-Krupovic et al. 2015; Paul, Bagby et al. 2015; Peng, Feng et al. 2015; Pohlschroder and Esquivel 2015; Prangishvili 2015; Probst and Moissl-Eichinger 2015; Randau 2015; Tonner, Pittman et al. 2015; Iranzo, Koonin et al. 2016; Laso-Perez, Wegener et al. 2016; Seitz, Lazar et al. 2016; Vanwonterghem, Evans et al. 2016; Adam, Borrel et al. 2017; Cossu, Badel et al. 2017; Da Cunha, Gaia et al. 2017; Mattiroli, Bhattacharyya et al. 2017; Nicks and Rahn-Lee 2017; Prangishvili, Bamford et al. 2017; Sorokin, Makarova et al. 2017; Spang, Caceres et al. 2017; Wagner, Whitaker et al. 2017; Williams, Szollosi et al. 2017; Zhou, Xie et al. 2017; Burns, Pittis et al. 2018; Caspi and Dekker 2018; Krupovic, Cvirkaite-Krupovic et al. 2018; Welte 2018)

 

·      Differences and similarities between Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya: (Luijsterburg, White et al. ; Winker and Woese 1991; Zillig 1991; Langer, Hain et al. 1995; Grayling, Sandman et al. ; Sandler, Satin et al. 1996; Koonin, Mushegian et al. 1997; Pereira and Reeve 1998; Mojica, Diez-Villasenor et al. 2000; Sandman and Reeve 2000; Jordan, Makarova et al. 2001; Karlin, Brocchieri et al. 2002; Karlin, Brocchieri et al. 2005; Siebers and Schonheit ; Zumft and Kroneck 2007; Luijsterburg, White et al. 2008; Romling 2008; Simon, Clarke et al. 2008; Sorek, Kunin et al. 2008; Zhou, Olman et al. 2008; Allen, Goh et al. 2009; Benelli, Marzi et al. 2009; Blombach, Makarova et al. 2009; Cortez, Forterre et al. 2009; Jalasvuori, Jaatinen et al. 2009; Schleifer 2009; Tahirov, Makarova et al. 2009; Wu, Hugenholtz et al. 2009; Horvath and Barrangou 2010; Karginov and Hannon 2010; Klenk and Goker 2010; Marraffini and Sontheimer 2010; Soppa 2010; Bhaya, Davison et al. 2011; Collins, Merz et al. 2011; Krupovic, Prangishvili et al. 2011; Makarova, Wolf et al. 2011; Mohanty and Kushner 2011; Nunoura, Takaki et al. 2011; Yamaguchi, Park et al. 2011; Nasir, Kim et al. 2012; Nishida 2012; Nishida 2012; Wiedenheft, Sternberg et al. 2012; Yutin and Koonin 2012; Edelheit, Schwartz et al. 2013; Makarova, Wolf et al. 2013; O'Donnell, Langston et al. 2013; Sorek, Lawrence et al. 2013; Burton and Burton 2014; Williams and Embley 2014; Yoshihisa 2014; Pinhassi, DeLong et al. 2016; Bardy, Briegel et al. 2017; Koonin, Makarova et al. 2017; Paul, Burstein et al. 2017)

 

·      Archaeal DNA transfer: (Metcalf, Zhang et al. 1997; Prangishvili, Albers et al. 1998; Luo and Wasserfallen 2001; Greve, Jensen et al. 2004; Albers and Pohlschroder 2009; Brodt, Lurie-Weinberger et al. 2011; Gaudin, Gauliard et al. 2013; Naor and Gophna 2013; van Wolferen, Wagner et al. 2016)

 

·      Horizontal bacterial-archaeal DNA transfer: (Aravind, Tatusov et al. 1998; Kyrpides and Olsen 1999; Faguy and Doolittle 2000; Nesbo, L'Haridon et al. 2001; Deppenmeier, Johann et al. 2002; Frigaard, Martinez et al. 2006; Dodsworth, Li et al. 2010; Nelson-Sathi, Dagan et al. 2012; Schonknecht, Chen et al. 2013; Lopez-Garcia, Zivanovic et al. 2015; Nelson-Sathi, Sousa et al. 2015; Groussin, Boussau et al. 2016)

 

 

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