| arya | Date: Thursday, 07-April-2011, 6:41 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Living things are currently split into three branches or domains – eukaryotes, or complex celled organisms such as animals, plants and humans – and two simple celled microorganism divisions – bacteria and archaea.
But now a researcher working with the laboratory of the maverick scientist Dr Craig Venter claims he might have discovered a fourth.
Professor Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, has used complicated gene sequencing techniques to look at DNA collected by Dr Venter on a round the world yachting trip.
He found that some of the genes did not fit into the three domains and that he could possibly have stumbled on a whole new domain.
Full article/source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science....fe.html
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