"Professional" Three Domain Classification crushed?

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Dear All,
     For those of you interested in the Tree of Life in general and its 
phylogeny and classification, you might find these two papers interesting.
     The second paper (by Thomas Cavalier-Smith) will probably finally 
crush the "professional" Three Domain classification that has been so 
popular for the past decade.  Professionals can make huge mistakes, and they 
have no corner on the truth.  However, they often do have the advantage of a 
considerable headstart (which can also mean more funding).  In this case, I 
think some of the tortoises are finally overtaking the hare, but the Three 
Domain mess will undoubtedly take many years to clean up.
       So it goes,   Ken

The phylogeny of proteobacteria: relationships to other eubacterial phyla 
and eukaryotes.   Radhey S. Gupta
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 24: 367-402
>
The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the 
universal tree and bacterial megaclassification.
by T. Cavalier-Smith.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2002), 
52: 7?76
http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/



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