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

<table>Chitinase. Phylogenetic tree for glycosyl hydrolase family 18 ChiA.</table>

Archaea

Figure 13: Low Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer among Metabolic Genes Define the Evolving Biogeochemical Niches of Archaea through Deep Time 