title: Leaving negative ancestors behind.
abstract: Bacteria with a single cell membrane have evolved from ancestors with two membranes on multiple occasions within the Firmicutes phylum.
authors: Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, CIFAR Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
authors: Sergio A
authors: 0000-0002-6200-474X
authors: SA
authors: Muñoz-Gómez
authors: Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, CIFAR Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
authors: Andrew J
authors: AJ
authors: Roger
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: Firmicutes; Halanaerobiales; Negativicutes; cell biology; evolutionary biology; genomics; none; phylogenomics