The PEDIGREE of
Family Enterobacteriaceae

     (many species are SYMBIOTES; DISEASES)
 "Child(ren)":       Genus Salmonella   ;   Enterobacter (human pathogen)   ;   Escherichia (incl. E. coli : major human pathogen)   ;   Klebsiella (common in humans : can cause pneumonia)   ;   Proteus (human pathogen)   ;   Shigella (primate pathogen : causes shigellosis)   ;   Citrobacter (genus with unusual properties incl. accumulation of uranium)   ;   Buchnera (endosymbiont of aphids)   ;   Blochmannia (symbiont of carpenter ant)   ;   many other genera of insect symbionts and pathogens
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/-- Earth of Nectarian Era (Hadean Eon)   +====> [ 35]
/-- Earth of Lower Imbrian Era (Hadean Eon)
/-- Earth of Eoarchean Era (Archean Eon)
/-- Non-reproducing Precursor Organism
/-- Earliest life (Based on Peptide Nucleic Acid)
| \ / or: polyamide nucleic acid
|  | / or: glycol nucleic acid or: threose nucleic acid
/  \-- Montmorillonite-based Vesicles
/-- Earlier life (Based on RNA)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Earlier Life (Based on RNA and Protein)
/-- Last Universal Ancestor of Present Life
| \ / OR: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)   +====> [ 9]
| | /-- Alkaline hydrothermal vents
/  \-- Tiny cavities in iron sulphide rocks
/-- Proto-Bacteria  (3700 M BC)
/-- Glycobacteria (Traditional Model)
/-- Gracilicutes (Traditional Model)
/   / OR: Subkingdom Hydrobacteria (Terra-Hydro Model)   +====> [ 45]
/-- Clade of Proteobacteria & Planctobacteria
/-- Phylum Proteobacteria (purple bacteria & kin)
/-- Class Gammaproteobacteria
/-- Order Enterobacteriales
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- Family Enterobacteriaceae
 

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