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| PHYLOGENETIC TREE OF THE ARCHAEA |
The following is a phylogenetic tree of the Archaea based on 16s rRNA sequence data.

A modification of Woese from:
Brock, T. D., M.T. Madigan, J.M. Martinko, and J. Parker. 1994. Biology of Microorganisms. 7th ed. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.