are describing a comprehensive analysis of archaeal phylogeny with a genome-based alignment free method, and then comparing the findings to 16S rRNA based phylogenies.
L119–123: if the K issue is relevant to understand the text then please add a proper explanation. If not, then keep it simple and avoid entering into the K issue (L122–123, L132, L135, L139, 183, and also remove this K = 6 from Figure 3.)