%AMagnabosco, C. [Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology Simons Foundation New York, NY USA]%AMagnabosco, C. [Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology; Simons Foundation New York, NY USA]%AMoore, K. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge MA USA]%AMoore, K. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA USA]%AWolfe, J. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA USA]%AWolfe, J. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge MA USA]%AFournier, G. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA USA]%AFournier, G. [Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge MA USA]%BJournal Name: Geobiology; Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 2; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2023-09-25 23:54:33 %D2018%IWiley-Blackwell %JJournal Name: Geobiology; Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 2; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2023-09-25 23:54:33 %K %MOSTI ID: 10050635 %PMedium: X %TDating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories %X
Phototrophic bacteria are among the most biogeochemically significant organisms on Earth and are physiologically related through the use of reaction centers to collect photons for energy metabolism. However, the major phototrophic lineages are not closely related to one another in bacterial phylogeny, and the origins of their respective photosynthetic machinery remain obscured by time and low sequence similarity. To better understand the co‐evolution of Cyanobacteria and other ancient anoxygenic phototrophic lineages with respect to geologic time, we designed and implemented a variety of molecular clocks that use horizontal gene transfer (