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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2010 Sep 6;8(10):731–741. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2406

Figure 2. The distribution of the key components of membrane manipulation systems among the Archaea.

Figure 2

The phyletic patterns for indicated proteins are represented by filled circles to show the presence of the proteins and empty circles to show their absence. This is arranged according to the archaeal phylogenetic tree, the topology of which is a consensus based on several recent analyses63–65. Species are coloured by phyla and then subdivided into orders. VPS4, vacuolar protein sorting 4.