Nature4y
The three domains of cellular life (simplified schemes)
(B) The rooted three-domain tree. (C) The network of life. A: archaea; B: bacteria; E: eukaryote; LUCA: last universal common ancestor of cellular life-forms. The question mark indicates the ...
Nature13y
The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
Viruses typically lack many of the genes that are universal among the three domains of cellular life — in particular, genes for translation system components. However, a small core of viral ...
The Scientist10y
Gene Jumped to All Three Domains of Life
Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, ...
Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
Asgard Archaea May Hold the Key to the Origins of Eukaryotic Life, New Study Suggests
Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...
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Origin of life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells
Some researchers have since proposed regarding eukaryotes as a group within Asgard archaea. This would reduce the number of ...
The Scientist2y
The Long and Winding Road to Eukaryotic Cells
In the three-domain model, eukaryotes belong to a separate branch that ... The question of where exactly eukaryotes branch on the tree of life has been debated by scientists for decades. But the ...