Evolutionary Placement of Undinarchaeota (IMAGE)

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Evolutionary Placement of Undinarchaeota

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Depiction of the evolutionary placement of Undinarchaeota in an archaeal tree as a sister group of the symbiotic DPANN archaea (left). Illustration of cell of an Undinarchaeota representative, which might have pili (cell appendages) and may be able to take up DNA but is likely dependent on partner organisms for the acquisition of various metabolites (right).

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Anja Spang

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