%0 Journal Article
%T Whole-genome based Archaea phylogeny and taxonomy: A composition vector approach
%A JianDong Sun
%A Zhao Xu
%A BaiLin Hao
%J Chinese Science Bulletin
%@ 1861-9541
%D 2010
%I 
%R 10.1007/s11434-010-3008-8
%X The newly proposed alignment-free and parameter-free composition vector (CVtree) method has been successfully applied to infer phylogenetic relationship of viruses, chloroplasts, bacteria, and fungi from their whole-genome data. In this study we pay special attention to the phylogenetic positions of 56 Archaea genomes among which 7 species have not been listed either in Bergey¡¯s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology or in Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea (TOBA). By inspecting the stable monophyletic branchings in CVTrees reconstructed from a total of 861 genomes (56 Archaea plus 797 Bacteria, using 8 Eukarya as outgroups) definite taxonomic assignments were proposed for these not-fully-classified species. Further development of Archaea taxonomy may verify the predicted phylogenetic results of the CVTree approach.
%K Archaea
%K phylogeny
%K taxonomy
%K composition vector
%K alignment-free
%K CVTree
%K 16S rRNA analysis
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11434-010-3008-8