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.0012a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/archaea/volume-2012/843539/figures/843539.fig.0012a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Nitrogenase reductase NifH, and NifH-like proteins</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="843539.fig.0012b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/archaea/volume-2012/843539/figures/843539.fig.0012b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Nitrogenase NifD and FeMo cofactor subunit NifE</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Nitrogen fixation. Phylogenetic trees for (a) nitrogenase reductase NifH and NifH-like proteins (type 4) and (b) the nitrogenase alpha subunit NifD with the FeMo cofactor subunit NifE.</table>

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Figure 12: Low Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer among Metabolic Genes Define the Evolving Biogeochemical Niches of Archaea through Deep Time 