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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Discovering Archaea, 1977
Woese and Fox determined the sequences of the oligonucleotide fragments—each about 6 to 14 nucleotides long—and recorded them on 80-column IBM punch cards. The team then compared the catalog of ...
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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New Clues On Eukaryote Evolution From Asgard Archaea
It was only then that they realized they were dealing with a previously unknown group of archaea. Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
For example, when scientists build trees for the numerous genes encoding metabolic enzymes or membrane transport proteins, the separation of archaea and bacteria is almost never precisely ...
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Origin of life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells
It was only then that they realised they were dealing with a previously unknown group of archaea. Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant ...