Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity
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DOI: 10.1038/nature21031
Abstract: The origin and cellular complexity of eukaryotes represent a major enigma in biology. Current data support scenarios in which an archaeal host cell and an alphaproteobacterial (mitochondrial) endosymbiont merged together, resulting in the first eukaryotic… read more here.
Keywords: complexity; origin; eukaryotic cellular; cellular complexity ... See more keywords
Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007215
Abstract: Comment on: Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. [Nature. 2015] Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. [PLoS Genet. 2017] read more here.
Keywords: debate universal; close debate; asgard archaea; topology ... See more keywords