Abstract
The Terrestrial Miscellaneous Euryarchaeota Group has been identified in various environments, and the single genome investigated thus far suggests that these archaea are anaerobic sulfite reducers. We assemble 35 new genomes from this group that, based on genome analysis, appear to possess aerobic and facultative anaerobic lifestyles and may oxidise rather than reduce sulfite. We propose naming this order (representing 16 genera) “Lutacidiplasmatales” due to their occurrence in various acidic environments and placement within the phylum Thermoplasmatota. Phylum-level analysis reveals that Thermoplasmatota evolution had been punctuated by several periods of high levels of novel gene family acquisition. Several essential metabolisms, such as aerobic respiration and acid tolerance, were likely acquired independently by divergent lineages through convergent evolution rather than inherited from a common ancestor. Ultimately, this study describes the terrestrially prevalent Lutacidiciplasmatales and highlights convergent evolution as an important driving force in the evolution of archaeal lineages.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 4110 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Volume | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2022 |
Bibliographical note
UKRI financially supported P.O.S. and Y.M. through the NERC grant (NE/R001529/1). In addition, C.G.-R. and T.A.W. were supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF150571 and UF140626). We thank Tony Travis for his support with Biolinux. The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of the Maxwell computer cluster funded by the University of Aberdeen.Data Availability Statement
Accession numbers for the 36 newly sequenced genomes presented in this study can be found in Supplementary Data 2 and under the NCBI BioProject PRJNA795910. Public data is available from NCBI (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), IMG (https://img.jgi.doe.gov/), KEGG (https://www.genome.jp/kegg/), dbCAN (http://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN2/download/), arCOG (https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/wolf/COGs/arCOG/), PFAM (https://pfam.xfam.org/), TIGRFAM (http://tigrfams.jcvi.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi) and GTDB R202 (https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/). Source data are provided with this paper.Code availability
Scripts for general manipulation of ALE outputs have been deposited at https://github.com/Tancata/phylo/tree/master/ALE (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4012549)34, and additional scripts specific to this work have been deposited at https://github.com/SheridanPO/ALE_analysis (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6598435)90.
Keywords
- archaea
- phylogenetics
- taxonomy
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