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Building on the availability of the complete genome sequence, gene homologs of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans [ 31 ] were identified for M. incognita clusters and correlated with known RNA interference (RNAi) phenotypes.
The gamma-3 Proteobacteria contain free-living bacteria with large genomes and also numerous symbiotic lineages showing varying degrees of reduction in genome size [ 46, 47].
General conservation of this domain across a range of organisms, and its presence in the LUCA suggests the possibility of an important general role in cellular process of free-living organisms.
These include the SBHM of the phosphotransferase system enzyme II (glucose permease or PTS-EII) found in several lineages of free-living bacteria, the one at the C-termini of cytochrome F from cyanobacteria and chloroplasts, and the NlpD-like cell wall peptidases that are present in most bacteria.
While gene transfer into the mitochondrial genomes has been inferred [ 36 37 38 39 ] , mitochondrial genomes are expected to have undergone many fewer legitimate and illegitimate recombination events than free-living prokaryotes.