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Clusters of orthologous genes for 41 archaeal genomes and implications for evolutionary genomics of archaea

Kira S Makarova, Alexander V Sorokin, Pavel S Novichkov, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin*

Biology Direct 2007, 2:33 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-33

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The core and unique proteins of haloarchaea

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Purine biosynthesis in archaea: variations on a theme

Anne M Brown, Samantha L Hoopes, Robert H White, Catherine A Sarisky Biology Direct 2011, 6:63 (14 December 2011)

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Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

Kira S Makarova, L Aravind, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2011, 6:38 (14 July 2011)

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Molecular evolution of the hyperthermophilic archaea of the Pyrococcus genus: analysis of adaptation to different environmental conditions

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Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

Natalya Yutin, Yuri I Wolf, Didier Raoult, Eugene V Koonin Virology Journal 2009, 6:223 (17 December 2009)

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Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements

Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, John van der Oost, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2009, 4:29 (25 August 2009)

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The complete genome sequence of Staphylothermus marinus reveals differences in sulfur metabolism among heterotrophic Crenarchaeota

Iain J Anderson, Lakshmi Dharmarajan, Jason Rodriguez, Sean Hooper, Iris Porat, Luke E Ulrich, James G Elkins, Kostas Mavromatis, Hui Sun, Miriam Land, Alla Lapidus, Susan Lucas, Kerrie Barry, Harald Huber, Igor B Zhulin, William B Whitman, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Carl Woese, James Bristow, Nikos Kyrpides BMC Genomics 2009, 10:145 (2 April 2009)

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Happy together: genomic insights into the unique Nanoarchaeum/Ignicoccus association

Patrick Forterre, Simonetta Gribaldo, Céline Brochier-Armanet Journal of Biology 2009, 8:7 (23 January 2009)

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A DNA topoisomerase IB in Thaumarchaeota testifies for the presence of this enzyme in the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eucarya

Céline Brochier-Armanet, Simonetta Gribaldo, Patrick Forterre Biology Direct 2008, 3:54 (23 December 2008)

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Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1

Jimmy H Saw, Bruce W Mountain, Lu Feng, Marina V Omelchenko, Shaobin Hou, Jennifer A Saito, Matthew B Stott, Dan Li, Guang Zhao, Junli Wu, Michael Y Galperin, Eugene V Koonin, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Daniel J Rigden, Peter F Dunfield, Lei Wang, Maqsudul Alam Genome Biology 2008, 9:R161 (17 November 2008)

Sequencing of the complete genome of Anoxybacillus flavithermus reveals enzymes that are required for silica adaptation and biofilm formation.

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Extension of the COG and arCOG databases by amino acid and nucleotide sequences

Florian Meereis, Michael Kaufmann BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:479 (13 November 2008)

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A genomic analysis of the archaeal system Ignicoccus hospitalis-Nanoarchaeum equitans

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Sequencing of the complete genome of Ignicoccus hospitalis gives insight into its association with another species of Archaea, Nanoarchaeum equitans.

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Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia

Shaobin Hou, Kira S Makarova, Jimmy HW Saw, Pavel Senin, Benjamin V Ly, Zhemin Zhou, Yan Ren, Jianmei Wang, Michael Y Galperin, Marina V Omelchenko, Yuri I Wolf, Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin, Matthew B Stott, Bruce W Mountain, Michelle A Crowe, Angela V Smirnova, Peter F Dunfield, Lu Feng, Lei Wang, Maqsudul Alam Biology Direct 2008, 3:26 (1 July 2008)

Genome sequence of a methanotrophic member of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia reveals adaptations to the methane utilization under acidic conditions and supports grouping Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia and Chlamydiae into a superphylum

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Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

Armen Y Mulkidjanian, Michael Y Galperin, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2008, 3:13 (1 April 2008)