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A calibrated chronology of biochemistry reveals a stem line of descent responsible for planetary biodiversity

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Title
A calibrated chronology of biochemistry reveals a stem line of descent responsible for planetary biodiversity
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Frontiers in Genetics, September 2014
DOI 10.3389/fgene.2014.00306
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Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Jay E. Mittenthal, Derek Caetano-Anollés, Kyung Mo Kim

Abstract

Time-calibrated phylogenomic trees of protein domain structure produce powerful chronologies describing the evolution of biochemistry and life. These timetrees are built from a genomic census of millions of encoded proteins using models of nested accumulation of molecules in evolving proteomes. Here we show that a primordial stem line of descent, a propagating series of pluripotent cellular entities, populates the deeper branches of the timetrees. The stem line produced for the first time cellular grades ~2.9 billion years (Gy)-ago, which slowly turned into lineages of superkingdom Archaea. Prompted by the rise of planetary oxygen and aerobic metabolism, the stem line also produced bacterial and eukaryal lineages. Superkingdom-specific domain repertoires emerged ~2.1 Gy-ago delimiting fully diversified Bacteria. Repertoires specific to Eukarya and Archaea appeared 300 millions years later. Results reconcile reductive evolutionary processes leading to the early emergence of Archaea to superkingdom-specific innovations compatible with a tree of life rooted in Bacteria.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 10%
Germany 1 10%
Canada 1 10%
Unknown 7 70%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 50%
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Researcher 1 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 30%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 10%
Psychology 1 10%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Unknown 2 20%
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