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Comparative genomics of Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans: divergent routes of adaptation to thermophily and radiation resistance

Marina V Omelchenko1,2 email, Yuri I Wolf2 email, Elena K Gaidamakova1 email, Vera Y Matrosova1 email, Alexander Vasilenko1 email, Min Zhai1 email, Michael J Daly1 email, Eugene V Koonin2 email and Kira S Makarova2 email

Department of Pathology, F.E. Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:57doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-57

Published: 20 October 2005

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(contains supplementary text and supplementary tables 1S, 2S, 3S, 4S and supplementary figures 1S, 2S, 3S)

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contains the assignments of DR and TT proteins to the COG database.

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contains compressed file for all the trees (in PHYLIP format) for 122 proteins from the reconstructed gene set of the DR-TT common ancestor that showed affinity to thermophiles (see also 1: "Phylogenetic analysis of the genes of the reconstructed DR-TT common ancestor").

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contains DR and TT protein comparison with COGs predicted to be associated with the thermophilic phenotype.

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contains the results of the reconstruction of the gene repertoire of the common ancestor of TT and DR.

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contains information on taxonomic assignments for the best hits of the TT and DR proteins.

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contains compressed file for all the trees (in PHYLIP format) for proteins from DR-TT core that had best hits to thermophiles.

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