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performed all phylogenomic analyses ,
performed genome synteny and metabolic reconstruction analyses ,
analyzed the data and wrote the paper ,
, Data availability: All raw data (HMM profiles, initial and trimmed alignments, full trees in Newick format) are available in Supplementary Data 4
is supported by a PhD fellowship from Paris Diderot University and by funds from the PhD Programme "Frontières du Vivant (FdV)-Programme Bettencourt ,