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Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 25 Nov 2016 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Microbiology, volume 1 (eissn: 2058-5276,

Authors: Gogarten, Johann Peter; Deamer, David;

doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.229

pmid: 27886195

Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

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Abstract

We comment on several claims made in the paper by Weiss et al. which describes a genomic analysis that they believe is consistent with the origin of life and emergence of a progenote-like last universal common ancestor (LUCA) in hydrothermal vent conditions.

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University of California, Santa Cruz
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Keywords

Bioreactors, Sewage, Temperature, Archaea, Phylogeny

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