| | rRNA or proteins for phylogeny? |
 | | In both 16S and 23S rRNA unrooted trees, the length of the archaeal branch (i.e., the branch connecting the last common ancestor of all archaea to the point of trifurcation) is strikingly shorter than the bacterial and eucaryal branches (see Fig. |
 | | For example, while 18S rRNA analyses have suggested that Microsporidia are one of the most ancient eukaryotic lineages, recent analyses of their proteins performed by Keeling and Doolittle in Halifax (Canada) and by Hasegawa in Tokyo (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) indicate that they are close relatives of fungi. |
 | | Studies based on protein sequences of heatshock (HSP70) proteins and chaperonins have provided evidence that, firstly, the amitochondriate organisms all have had a mitochondrion which may have been lost secondarily, or that was converted from a mitochondrion to an anaerobic hydrogenosome as is the case in the trichomonads, belonging to the Parabasalia. |
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