These Hikarchaea (also known as Marine Group IV archaea) genomes have been reconstructed from Tara Oceans metagenomic sequence data. Because Hikarchaea form a close sister group to Haloarchaea, they allowed us to re-evaluate the evolutionary origin and history of the Haloarchaea.
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