Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The first cultured Asgard archaeon lives in metabolic symbiosis with hydrogen-scavenging microbes. Its full-genome analysis authenticates the existence of Asgard archaea, previously only known from metagenome-assembled genomes, confirms their closer phylogenetic relatedness to eukaryotes and reinforces the idea that the eukaryotic cell evolved from an integrated archaeal-bacterial syntrophic consortium.
Medical subject headings
- Archaea
- Eukaryota