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 ...
How microtubules in Asgard archaea shaped evolution
In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...
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New Clues On Eukaryote Evolution From Asgard Archaea
ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...
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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Tiny microbes may have given rise to complex life
Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...
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Asgard archaea provide clues to the origin of complex life forms
Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms ... the researchers are confident that the cytoskeleton was an important step in the evolution of eukaryotes. This step could have occurred aeons ago ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
G. & Dolja, V. V. The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells. Biology Direct 19, 29 (2006) Koonin, E. V. & Wolf, Y. I. Genomics of bacteria and archaea: The emerging dynamic view of the ...
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Archaea articles from across Nature Portfolio
The formation of organelles was a pivotal point in eukaryotic evolution. Here they show that Archaea possess Arf-like GTPases that can perform key organelle-producing mechanisms when expressed in ...