The main domains into which life-forms can be divided are the Eubacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. Complete genomic sequences of examples of the first two were published in 1995 and 19961,2. Now we have an example of the third.
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Clayton, R., White, O., Ketchum, K. et al. The first genome from the third domain of life. Nature 387, 459–462 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/387459a0
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