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This outcome strongly supports this parsimony approach to reconstructing the gene inventory of the shared ancestor of E. coli and Buchnera, and also of the hypothesis that Buchnera evolved from such an ancestor through gene loss.
Tridentatae does not share a most recent common ancestor with Old World Seriphidium species, and it should not be treated with the Old World woody artemisias, as we and others have previously suggested [ 34 35 36 ] .
The arrangement of the two DPBBs in the β and β' subunits suggests that, in the primordial ancestor of the DDRPs, the two DPBBs formed a "head-to-tail" homodimer that bound RNA at the domain interface.
These features suggest (at least for the nocturnin, CCR4 and angel families) that proteins which cluster in the same family indeed share a common ancestor, in agreement with the phylogenetic data.
In this case, the lack of correlation between evolutionary rates and the number of interacting partners might simply be due to the small amount of evolutionary diversification that has occurred since the two H. pylori strains separated from their common ancestor.