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Whole-proteome tree of life suggests a deep burst of organism diversity.
An organism tree of life (organism ToL) is a conceptual and metaphorical tree to capture a simplified narrative of the evolutionary course and kinship among the extant organisms. Such a tree cannot be experimentally validated but may be reconstructed based on characteristics associated with the organisms. Since the whole-genome sequence of an organism is, at present, the most comprehensive descriptor of the organism, a whole-genome sequence-based ToL can be an empirically derivable surrogate for the organism ToL. However, experimentally determining the whole-genome sequences of many diverse organisms was practically impossible until recently. We have constructed three types of ToLs for diversely sampled organisms using the sequences of whole genome, of whole transcriptome, and of whole proteome. Of the three, whole-proteome sequence-based ToL (whole-proteome ToL), constructed by applying information theory-based feature frequency profile method, an "alignment-free" method, gave the most topologically stable ToL. Here, we describe the main features of a whole-proteome ToL for 4,023 species with known complete or almost complete genome sequences on grouping and kinship among the groups at deep evolutionary levels. The ToL reveals 1) all extant organisms of this study can be grouped into 2 "Supergroups," 6 "Major Groups," or 35+ "Groups"; 2) the order of emergence of the "founders" of all of the groups may be assigned on an evolutionary progression scale; 3) all of the founders of the groups have emerged in a "deep burst" at the very beginning period near the root of the ToL-an explosive birth of life's diversity
Bishop-Phelps-Bolloba's theorem on bounded closed convex sets
This paper deals with the \emph{Bishop-Phelps-Bollob\'as property}
(\emph{BPBp} for short) on bounded closed convex subsets of a Banach space ,
not just on its closed unit ball . We firstly prove that the \emph{BPBp}
holds for bounded linear functionals on arbitrary bounded closed convex subsets
of a real Banach space. We show that for all finite dimensional Banach spaces
and the pair has the \emph{BPBp} on every bounded closed convex
subset of , and also that for a Banach space with property
the pair has the \emph{BPBp} on every bounded closed absolutely convex
subset of an arbitrary Banach space . For a bounded closed absorbing
convex subset of with positive modulus convexity we get that the pair
has the \emph{BPBp} on for every Banach space . We further
obtain that for an Asplund space and for a locally compact Hausdorff ,
the pair has the \emph{BPBp} on every bounded closed absolutely
convex subset of . Finally we study the stability of the \emph{BPBp} on
a bounded closed convex set for the -sum or -sum of a
family of Banach spaces
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