The ancestors of major bacterial phyla are placed in the Archean and Proterozoic eras (2.5–1.8 billion years ago), while many families date back to 0.6–0.75 billion years ago, overlapping with the era ...

Schematics represent the abundance (read count) of individual bacterial phyla relative to total bacterial read counts and averaged across the groups depicted. (A) Parts of a whole plot of SV and ...

The ancestors of major bacterial phyla are placed in the Archaean and Proterozoic eras (2.5-1.8 billion years ago), while many families date back to 0.6-0.75 billion years ago, overlapping with the ...