Archaeal evolution articles within Nature

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    Analyses of multiple phylogenetic marker datasets of Asgard archaea provide insight into the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, specifically placing eukaryotes within Asgard archaea and as a sister lineage to Hodarchaeales.

    • Laura Eme
    • , Daniel Tamarit
    •  & Thijs J. G. Ettema

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    This work describes the Asgard superphylum, an assemblage of diverse archaea that comprises Odinarchaeota, Heimdallarchaeota, Lokiarchaeota and Thorarchaeota, offering insights into the earliest days of eukaryotic cells and their complex features.

    • Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka
    • , Eva F. Caceres
    •  & Thijs J. G. Ettema

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    This study identifies a clade of archaea that is the immediate sister group of eukaryotes in phylogenetic analyses, and that also has a repertoire of proteins otherwise characteristic of eukaryotes—proteins that would have provided the first eukaryotes with a ‘starter kit’ for the genomic and cellular complexity characteristic of the eukaryotic cell.

    • Anja Spang
    • , Jimmy H. Saw
    •  & Thijs J. G. Ettema

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