On the nature of fur evolution: A phylogenetic approach in Actinobacteria

Catarina L Santos^1,2 , João Vieira¹ , Fernando Tavares^1,2 , David R Benson³ , Louis S Tisa⁴ , Alison M Berry⁵ , Pedro Moradas-Ferreira^1,6 and Philippe Normand⁷

¹IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal

²Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Botânica, Rua do Campo Alegre 1191, 4150-181 Porto, Portugal

³Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06279, USA

⁴Department of Microbiology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA

⁵Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 1, PES Building, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

⁶Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Lg. Prof. Abel Salazar, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal

⁷UMR 5557 CNRS Ecologie Microbienne, IFR41 Bio-Environnement et Santé, Université Lyon 1, 43 Bd du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France