Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Finally, the three-domain structure of Woese's tree (Figure 1a) shows that evolutionary history is decoupled from biological organization. Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...

This groundbreaking effort involved analyzing over 1,000 genetic samples of microbes, primarily bacteria and archaea (another domain of life once considered to be bacteria), collected from 50 ...

On one side there are the tiny bacteria and archaea, collectively known as prokaryotes. On the other side there are the huge and unwieldy eukaryotes, the third great domain of life. A typical ...

This study represents the first successful cultivation of ultrasmall bacteria that parasitize archaea, which evolutionarily ... bacteria that demonstrate intra-domain interactions have been ...

Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life How the evolution of molecular systems shaped the function and behavior of cells and created the life diversity observed today is still ...