Anomalous phylogenetic behavior of ribosomal proteins in metagenome assembled genomes
S. G. Garg, N. Kapust, W. Lin, S. Nelson-Sathi, F. D. K. Tria, S. B. Gould, L. Fan, R. Zhu, C. Zhang, W. F. Martin
The paper shows that Asgard and CPR metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) fail to meet basic phylogenetic criteria due to their anomalous ribosomal protein evolutionary histories, suggesting they are binning artifacts.
bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology