Table 1

Position of Nanoarchaeum equitans in maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenies of individual ribosomal proteins

Position of N. equitans

Proteins

Total

Basal position

L3, L10, L11, L31e, S5, S19e, S24e

7

Within Crenarchaeota and sister group to:

9

Sulfolobales

L16, L18e, L23

3

Aeropyrum pernix

S17e

1

Pyrobaculum aerophilum

L6, L20a, L29, S6e

4

Other

S10

1

Within Euryarchaeota and sister group of:

33

Thermococcales

L1, L2, L14, L15, L21e, L24, L32e, L37e, S3, S7, S17, S19, S28e

13

Methanopyrus kandleri

L4, L13, S13

3

Methanococcales

L18

1

Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

S4, S11

2

Archaeoglobus fulgidus

S8e, S9

2

Thermoplasmatales

L22, L30, S2, S3ae, S15

5

Methanomicrobiales

S8

1

Halobacteriales

S27a

1

Other

L5, L19e, L24e, S4e, S27e

6

Absent in N. equitans

L39e

1

Brochier et al. Genome Biology 2005 6:R42   doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r42