Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

Implementing and testing Bayesian and maximum-likelihood supertree methods in phylogenetics

(2015) Wasiu A. Akanni et al.   Royal Society Open Science

L.U.St: a tool for approximated maximum likelihood supertree reconstruction

(2014) Wasiu A Akanni et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Archaeal “Dark Matter” and the Origin of Eukaryotes

(2014) Tom A. Williams et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenomic Test of the Hypotheses for the Evolutionary Origin of Eukaryotes

(2014) Nicolas C. Rochette et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth

(2014) James O. McInerney et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Concatabominations: Identifying Unstable Taxa in Morphological Phylogenetics using a Heuristic Extension to Safe Taxonomic Reduction

(2014) Karen Siu-Ting et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Pluralistic Account of Homology: Adapting the Models to the Data

(2013) Leanne S. Haggerty et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Gene similarity networks provide tools for understanding eukaryote origins and evolution

(2013) D. Alvarez-Ponce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Acquisition of 1,000 eubacterial genes physiologically transformed a methanogen at the origin of Haloarchaea

(2012) S. Nelson-Sathi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell fusion and hybrids in Archaea

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   Bioengineered

Stability of Heterochiral Hybrid Membrane Made of Bacterialsn-G3P Lipids and Archaealsn-G1P Lipids

(2011) Haruo Shimada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later

(2011) Celine Brochier-Armanet et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Human Genome Retains Relics of Its Prokaryotic Ancestry: Human Genes of Archaebacterial and Eubacterial Origin Exhibit Remarkable Differences

(2011) David Alvarez-Ponce et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

An actin-based cytoskeleton in archaea

(2011) Thijs J. G. Ettema et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

(2011) Lionel Guy et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat

(2010) Félix Muller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Tree and Net Components of Prokaryote Evolution

(2010) Pere Puigbò et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function

(2010) J. A. Cotton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intermediate Steps

(2010) D. P. Devos et al.   SCIENCE

Retention of the virus-derived sequences in the nuclear genome of grapevine as a potential pathway to virus resistance

(2009) Christophe Bertsch et al.   Biology Direct

Computing the Distribution of a Tree Metric

(2009) D. Bryant et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

(2008) C. J. Cox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2008) G. T Lloyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis

(2008) A. Loytynoja et al.   SCIENCE

Maximum Likelihood Supertrees

(2008) Mike Steel et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY