The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) and the Ancestors of Archaea and Bacteria were Progenotes

Biological evidence against the panspermia theory

(2010) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

On the Origin of Cells and Viruses

(2009) Eugene V. Koonin   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Reconstructing ancestral gene content by coevolution

(2009) T. Tuller et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Formal Proof that the Split Genes of tRNAs of Nanoarchaeum equitans Are an Ancestral Character

(2009) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

A Comparison Among the Models Proposed to Explain the Origin of the tRNA Molecule: A Synthesis

(2009) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Streamlining and Large Ancestral Genomes in Archaea Inferred with a Phylogenetic Birth-and-Death Model

(2009) M. Csuros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Tri-split tRNA is a transfer RNA made from 3 transcripts that provides insight into the evolution of fragmented tRNAs in archaea

(2009) Kosuke Fujishima et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Amino acid modifications on tRNA†

(2008) Jing Yuan et al.   ACTA BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA SINICA

An extension of the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code

(2008) Massimo Di Giulio   Biology Direct

The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

(2008) Nicolas Glansdorff et al.   Biology Direct

The genomics of LUCA

(2008) Wai-Kin Mat   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

The origin of genes could be polyphyletic

(2008) Massimo Di Giulio   GENE

Permuted tRNA genes of Cyanidioschyzon merolae, the origin of the tRNA molecule and the root of the Eukarya domain

(2008) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Sequence Evidence in the Archaeal Genomes that tRNAs Emerged Through the Combination of Ancestral Genes as 5′ and 3′ tRNA Halves

(2008) Kosuke Fujishima et al.   PLoS One