Gene inversion triggered origination of brackish archaeal heterotrophs in the aftermath of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth
L. Fan, B. Xu, S. Chen, Y. Liu, F. Li, W. Xie, A. Prabhu, D. Zou, R. Wan, H. Li, H. Liu, Y. Liu, S.-J. Kao, J. Chen, Y. Zhu, , C. Zhang
The paper traces the evolutionary origin of brackish archaea, showing gene rearrangements enabled their adaptation to coastal environments after the Cryogenian Snowball Earth.
bioRxiv · Sep 25, 2022Evolutionary Biology