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Transposable Elements in Archaebacteria

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Part of the book series: Genetic Engineering ((GEPM,volume 8))

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In 1977, Woese, Fox and collaborators (1–3) asserted that the prokaryotes harbored within themselves an evolutionary discontinuity as profound as that which separates prokaryotes from eukaryotes (4). On one side of this discontinuity they placed all cyanobacteria, all plastids and all mitochondria, and most of the prokaryotes listed in Bergey–s Manual, and called them ‘ubacteria’ . On the other side they placed a seemingly heterogeneous collection of prokaryotes of then unknown provenance -- the methanogens, the obligate halophiles and the thermoacidophilic genera Thermoplasma and Sulfolobus -- and called them ‘archaebacteria’.

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    W. F. Doolittle, C. Sapienza, J. D. Hofman, R. M. MacKay, A. Cohen & W.-L. Xu

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Doolittle, W.F., Sapienza, C., Hofman, J.D., MacKay, R.M., Cohen, A., Xu, WL. (1983). Transposable Elements in Archaebacteria. In: Setlow, J.K., Hollaender, A. (eds) Genetic Engineering. Genetic Engineering, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4556-5_3

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