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Review
. 2009;8(1):7.
doi: 10.1186/jbiol110. Epub 2009 Jan 23.

Happy together: genomic insights into the unique Nanoarchaeum/Ignicoccus association

Patrick Forterre  1 , Simonetta Gribaldo, Céline Brochier-Armanet
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Review

Happy together: genomic insights into the unique Nanoarchaeum/Ignicoccus association

Patrick Forterre et al. J Biol. 2009.

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of the crenarchaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis published recently in Genome Biology provides a great leap forward in the dissection of its unique association with another hyperthermophilic archaeon, Nanoarchaeum equitans.

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Figure 1
(a) Schematic diagram of archaeal phylogeny showing the evolutionary relationships between archaeal lineages for which completely sequenced genomes are available (updated from [12]). The positions of Ignicoccus hospitalis and Nanoarchaeum equitans are indicated by arrows. The position of N. equitans has been controversial [2,8], but the position suggested here has been recently supported by a specific synapomorphy (a derived character state shared by two or more groups) [13] and signature genes [14]. (b) Electron micrograph showing a cell of N. equitans attached to a cell of I. hospitalis. The scale bar is 100 nm. Courtesy of Dr Rachel Reinhard, Regensburg University. OM: outer membrane.
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