Phylogenomic-wide studies of evolutionarily conserved structures of protein domains suggest Archaea is the first domain of life to diversify from a stem line of descent and co-evolve with ancestors of Bacteria and Eukarya. The proposed co-evolutionary scenario by J. T. Staley and G. Caetano-Anollés challenges popular cell fusion and two-domain of life scenarios derived from sequence analysis.
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