Congruence of evidence for a Methanopyrus-proximal root of life based on transfer RNA and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes.

2005 
Abstract Among 60 organisms, the intraspecies genetic distances between tRNAs cognate for different amino acids, between the initiator and elongator tRNAs for Met, and between potentially paralogous pairs of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are found to be at a minimum within the Methanopyrus kandleri genome. These results indicate an exact congruence between the evidence from tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes locating the root of life closest to this organism.
    • Correction
    • Source
    • Cite
    • Save
    • Machine Reading By IdeaReader
    38
    References
    33
    Citations
    NaN
    KQI
    []