{"title":"The Common Ancestor of Deinococcus Species was Rod-Shaped","authors":"Y. Morita, H. Nishida","doi":"10.2174/1875036201811010252","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The genusDeinococcusconsists of species in rod-shape (Bacilli) and spherical shape (Cocci).In this study, we aimed to determine whether the common ancestor ofDeinococcusspecies was rod-shaped or spherical.We compared the homologs of the proteins related to the rod-shape in bacteria (MreB, MreC, MreD, MrdA, RodA, and RodZ) in variousDeinococcusspecies andThermus thermophilus.The phylogenetic trees based on each protein and the homologs reflected the evolutionary relationships of the species, indicating that the Horizontal transfer of the genes did not occur during theDeinococcusevolution.The ancestor of the genusDeinococcuswas rod-shaped, and the spherical forms appeared when the rod-shaped formation system was lost during evolution and diversification within the genus.","PeriodicalId":38956,"journal":{"name":"Open Bioinformatics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open Bioinformatics Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1875036201811010252","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Computer Science","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The genusDeinococcusconsists of species in rod-shape (Bacilli) and spherical shape (Cocci).In this study, we aimed to determine whether the common ancestor ofDeinococcusspecies was rod-shaped or spherical.We compared the homologs of the proteins related to the rod-shape in bacteria (MreB, MreC, MreD, MrdA, RodA, and RodZ) in variousDeinococcusspecies andThermus thermophilus.The phylogenetic trees based on each protein and the homologs reflected the evolutionary relationships of the species, indicating that the Horizontal transfer of the genes did not occur during theDeinococcusevolution.The ancestor of the genusDeinococcuswas rod-shaped, and the spherical forms appeared when the rod-shaped formation system was lost during evolution and diversification within the genus.
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