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

The effects of model choice and mitigating bias on the ribosomal tree of life

(2013) Erica Lasek-Nesselquist et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

(2013) Karen G. Lloyd et al.   NATURE

Patterns of prokaryotic lateral gene transfers affecting parasitic microbial eukaryotes

(2013) Cecilia Alsmark et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Archaeal origin of tubulin

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Biology Direct

Updated clusters of orthologous genes for Archaea: a complex ancestor of the Archaea and the byways of horizontal gene transfer

(2012) Yuri I Wolf et al.   Biology Direct

Genome-scale coestimation of species and gene trees

(2012) B. Boussau et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

An ACP-Independent Fatty Acid Synthesis Pathway in Archaea: Implications for the Origin of Phospholipids

(2012) Jonathan Lombard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

(2012) Ziheng Yang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Resolving conflict in eutherian mammal phylogeny using phylogenomics and the multispecies coalescent model

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

Phylogenetic modeling of lateral gene transfer reconstructs the pattern and relative timing of speciations

(2012) G. J. Szollosi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea

(2012) T. A. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional Assignment of an Enzyme that Catalyzes the Synthesis of an Archaea-Type Ether Lipid in Bacteria

(2011) Harald Guldan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spectroscopic Evidence for the Unusual Stereochemical Configuration of an Endosome-Specific Lipid

(2011) Hui-Hui Tan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Core and Intact Polar Glycerol Dibiphytanyl Glycerol Tetraether Lipids of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Enriched from Marine and Estuarine Sediments

(2011) Angela Pitcher et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Haruo Shimada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

A Rooted Net of Life

(2011) David Williams et al.   Biology Direct

The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

An actin-based cytoskeleton in archaea

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

Universally Distributed Single-Copy Genes Indicate a Constant Rate of Horizontal Transfer

(2011) Christopher J. Creevey et al.   PLoS One

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

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Genome Networks Root the Tree of Life between Prokaryotic Domains

(2010) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Complexity Hypothesis Revisited: Connectivity Rather Than Function Constitutes a Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2010) O. Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Evolution of diverse cell division and vesicle formation systems in Archaea

(2010) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Simonetta Gribaldo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

(2010) Takuro Nunoura et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Archaeal phylogenomics provides evidence in support of a methanogenic origin of the Archaea and a thaumarchaeal origin for the eukaryotes

(2010) S. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identification of an ortholog of the eukaryotic RNA polymerase III subunit RPC34 in Crenarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota suggests specialization of RNA polymerases for coding and non-coding RNAs in Archaea

(2009) Fabian Blombach et al.   Biology Direct

Identification of a crenarchaeal orthologue of Elf1: implications for chromatin and transcription in Archaea

(2009) Jan-Peter Daniels et al.   Biology Direct

Mapping the Tree of Life: Progress and Prospects

(2009) N. R. Pace   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

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

The primary divisions of life: a phylogenomic approach employing composition-heterogeneous methods

(2009) P. G. Foster et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome beginnings: rooting the tree of life

(2009) J. A. Lake et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

(2009) V. Hampl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites

(2009) A. C. Allwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

(2008) N. Yutin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Biogeochemistry: Life before the rise of oxygen

(2008) Woodward W. Fischer   NATURE

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

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

A unique cell division machinery in the Archaea

(2008) A.-C. Lindas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea

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

The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

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