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Table 6 Inferred gene gain patterns involving 2 Archaeal clades

From: Updated clusters of orthologous genes for Archaea: a complex ancestor of the Archaea and the byways of horizontal gene transfer

Pattern frequency

Pattern description

16

Thermoplasmatales – Sulfolobales

14

deep Euryarchaeota – Thaumarchaeota

13

Halobacteriales – Thaumarchaeota

13

deep Euryarchaeota – Methanomicrobiales

12

Thermoplasmata – Thermococcales

12

Halobacteriales – Methanocella

12

Halobacteriales – Thermoplasmatales

12

Halobacteriales – Methanohalobium evestigatum

11

Halobacteriales – Archaeoglobus fulgidus

11

Halobacteriales – Archaeoglobales

10

Halobacteriales – Thaum- + Aigarchaeota