The Relative Ages of Eukaryotes and Akaryotes

Lysine Acetylation in Sexual Stage Malaria Parasites Is a Target for Antimalarial Small Molecules

(2014) Katharine Trenholme et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

An Alternative Root for the Eukaryote Tree of Life

(2014) Ding He et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity

(2014) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   PLoS One

The trouble with (group II) introns

(2014) W. F. Doolittle   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carl Woese's vision of cellular evolution and the domains of life

(2014) Eugene V Koonin   RNA Biology

Origin and Spread of de Novo Genes in Drosophila melanogaster Populations

(2014) L. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Mitosis Inhibits DNA Double-Strand Break Repair to Guard Against Telomere Fusions

(2014) A. Orthwein et al.   SCIENCE

Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations in Wild Prochlorococcus

(2014) N. Kashtan et al.   SCIENCE

Reversal of Female Infertility by Chk2 Ablation Reveals the Oocyte DNA Damage Checkpoint Pathway

(2014) E. Bolcun-Filas et al.   SCIENCE

The others: our biased perspective of eukaryotic genomes

(2014) Javier del Campo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The evolutionary-developmental origins of multicellularity

(2013) K. J. Niklas   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The PVC superphylum: exceptions to the bacterial definition?

(2013) John A. Fuerst   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Rooted phylogeny of the three superkingdoms

(2013) Ajith Harish et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Evidence for Deep Phylogenetic Conservation of Exonic Splice-Related Constraints: Splice-Related Skews at Exonic Ends in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus Are Common and Resemble Those Seen in Humans

(2013) XianMing Wu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

In Silico Resurrection of the Major Vault Protein Suggests It Is Ancestral in Modern Eukaryotes

(2013) Toni K. Daly et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

(2013) Jean-François Flot et al.   NATURE

Accelerated growth in the absence of DNA replication origins

(2013) Michelle Hawkins et al.   NATURE

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity

(2013) James Attwater et al.   Nature Chemistry

The cell cycle of archaea

(2013) Ann-Christin Lindås et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Evolution from DNA Sequences

(2013) W. Timothy J. White et al.   PLoS One

Nucleosomes and centromeric DNA packaging

(2013) J. S. Heslop-Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Oxygen, epigenetic signaling, and the evolution of early life

(2013) Albert Jeltsch   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

The Histone Code of Toxoplasma gondii Comprises Conserved and Unique Posttranslational Modifications

(2013) S. C. Nardelli et al.   mBio

Evolution of intracellular compartmentalization

(2012) Yoan Diekmann et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Selective forces for the origin of spliceosomes

(2012) Matej Vesteg et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Whence genes in pieces: reconstruction of the exon-intron gene structures of the last eukaryotic common ancestor and other ancestral eukaryotes

(2012) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

Cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation mark DNA for elimination in Oxytricha trifallax

(2012) John R Bracht et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Birds do it, bees do it, worms and ciliates do it too: DNA methylation from unexpected corners of the tree of life

(2012) Soojin Yi   GENOME BIOLOGY

Protein Arginine Methylation in Parasitic Protozoa

(2011) John C. Fisk et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Compatibility with Killer Explains the Rise of RNAi-Deficient Fungi

(2011) I. A. Drinnenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution

(2010) Thomas Cavalier-Smith   Biology Direct

The Incredible Expanding Ancestor of Eukaryotes

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin   CELL

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

(2010) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The Rate of Establishment of Complex Adaptations

(2010) M. Lynch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Epigenetic mechanisms regulate stage differentiation in the minimized protozoanGiardia lamblia

(2010) Sabrina Sonda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse?

(2010) Simonetta Gribaldo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Reconciling an archaeal origin of eukaryotes with engulfment: a biologically plausible update of the Eocyte hypothesis

(2010) Anthony M. Poole et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

On the last common ancestor and early evolution of eukaryotes: reconstructing the history of mitochondrial ribosomes

(2010) Elie Desmond et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

A new fusion hypothesis for the origin of Eukarya: better than previous ones, but probably also wrong

(2010) Patrick Forterre   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Metazoan/Plant-like Capping Enzyme and Cap Modified Nucleotides in the Unicellular Eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis

(2010) Augusto Simoes-Barbosa et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Evolution of Meiosis From Mitosis

(2009) A. S. Wilkins et al.   GENETICS

The Modern RNP World of Eukaryotes

(2009) L. J. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The Emergence of Predators in Early Life: There was No Garden of Eden

(2009) Silvester de Nooijer et al.   PLoS One

Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon

(2008) Bastien Boussau et al.   NATURE

High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

(2008) Mikhail V. Zubkov et al.   NATURE

Chromatin associated sense and antisense noncoding RNAs are transcribed from the var gene family of virulence genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

(2008) C. Epp et al.   RNA