Low Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer among Metabolic Genes Define the Evolving Biogeochemical Niches of Archaea through Deep Time

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="843539.fig.0014a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/archaea/volume-2012/843539/figures/843539.fig.0014a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Multicomponent monooxygenase, phenol/toluene hydroxylases</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="843539.fig.0014b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/archaea/volume-2012/843539/figures/843539.fig.0014b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>4-Hydroxyphenylacetate 3-hydroxylases</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Phenol and phenylacetate monooxygenases. Phylogenetic trees for (a) phenol hydroxylase and (b) 4-hydroxyphenylacetate 3-hydroxylase.</table>

Archaea

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Figure 14: Low Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer among Metabolic Genes Define the Evolving Biogeochemical Niches of Archaea through Deep Time 