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The sensitivities to 37 protein-synthesis inhibitors were determined in cell-free translational systems for 13 Archaebacteria species. Multivariate factor analysis by principal components, cluster analysis by the unweighted pair-group clustering algorithm, and compatibility and parsimony methods of constructing phylogenetic trees were used both to infer the genealogical relationships within archaebacteria and to establish their relations with the eubacterial and eukaryotic kingdoms.
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Oliver, J.L., Sanz, J.L., Amils, R. et al. Inferring the phylogeny of archaebacteria: The use of ribosomal sensitivity to protein-synthesis inhibitors. J Mol Evol 24, 281–288 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02111241
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