The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics

Major New Microbial Groups Expand Diversity and Alter our Understanding of the Tree of Life

(2018) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CELL

Membranes and evolution

(2018) Sven B. Gould   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO 2 reduction in early biochemical evolution

(2018) Filipa L Sousa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

A note on random catalytic branching processes

(2018) Mike Steel et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Bayesian selection of misspecified models is overconfident and may cause spurious posterior probabilities for phylogenetic trees

(2018) Ziheng Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Correction for Adam et al., Evolutionary history of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase, one of the oldest enzymatic complexes

(2018)   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

(2018) Anja Spang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology

(2018) Violette Da Cunha et al.   PLoS Genetics

Native iron reduces CO2 to intermediates and end-products of the acetyl-CoA pathway

(2018) Sreejith J. Varma et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Iron catalysis at the origin of life

(2017) Eloi Camprubi et al.   IUBMB LIFE

Mitochondria are not captive bacteria

(2017) Ajith Harish et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Serial endosymbiosis or singular event at the origin of eukaryotes?

(2017) Nick Lane   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

(2017) William F. Martin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

(2017) Takayuki Tashiro et al.   NATURE

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

(2017) Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al.   NATURE

Mechanisms of gene flow in archaea

(2017) Alexander Wagner et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life

(2017) Tom A. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2017) Violette Da Cunha et al.   PLoS Genetics

Synthetic alienation of microbial organisms by using genetic code engineering: Why and how?

(2017) Vladimir Kubyshkin et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Why prokaryotes have pangenomes

(2017) James O. McInerney et al.   Nature Microbiology

A nearly water-saturated mantle transition zone inferred from mineral viscosity

(2017) Hongzhan Fei et al.   Science Advances

Phylogenetic rooting using minimal ancestor deviation

(2017) Fernando Domingues Kümmel Tria et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The energy expansions of evolution

(2017) Olivia P. Judson   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Metals promote sequences of the reverse Krebs cycle

(2017) Kamila B. Muchowska et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Opinion: Studies on the origin of life — the end of the beginning

(2017) John D. Sutherland   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Spontaneous Emergence of S -Adenosylmethionine and the Evolution of Methylation

(2016) Paola Laurino et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2016) Woodward W. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule

(2016) Chuan Ku et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Systematic identification and analysis of frequent gene fusion events in metabolic pathways

(2016) Christopher S. Henry et al.   BMC GENOMICS

An Autotrophic Origin for the Coded Amino Acids is Concordant with the Coevolution Theory of the Genetic Code

(2016) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Autocatalytic, bistable, oscillatory networks of biologically relevant organic reactions

(2016) Sergey N. Semenov et al.   NATURE

Abiotic methane formation during experimental serpentinization of olivine

(2016) Thomas M. McCollom   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the Origin of Heterotrophy

(2016) Peter Schönheit et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

(2016) Johann Peter Gogarten et al.   Nature Microbiology

Reply to ‘Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?’

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

The Ribofilm as a Concept for Life’s Origins

(2015) John A. Baross et al.   CELL

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   NATURE

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

A pentose bisphosphate pathway for nucleoside degradation in Archaea

(2015) Riku Aono et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Bacterial gene import and mesophilic adaptation in archaea

(2015) Purificación López-García et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The ring of life hypothesis for eukaryote origins is supported by multiple kinds of data

(2015) James McInerney et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eukaryotes first: how could that be?

(2015) Carlos Mariscal et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Temperature dependence of amino acid hydrophobicities

(2015) Richard Wolfenden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Microbial Evolution: The Age of Anaerobes

(2015) William F. Martin et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Biochemical fossils of the ancient transition from geoenergetics to bioenergetics in prokaryotic one carbon compound metabolism

(2014) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Concatenated alignments and the case of the disappearing tree

(2014) Thorsten Thiergart et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Archaeal “Dark Matter” and the Origin of Eukaryotes

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

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria

(2014) Víctor Sojo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Predicting the Minimal Translation Apparatus: Lessons from the Reductive Evolution of Mollicutes

(2014) Henri Grosjean et al.   PLoS Genetics

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

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

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life

(2012) Nicholas T. Arndt et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Promiscuous archaeal ATP synthase concurrently coupled to Na+ and H+ translocation

(2012) K. Schlegel 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

Methanogens: a window into ancient sulfur metabolism

(2012) Yuchen Liu et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes

(2011) Ovidiu Popa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal Transfer, Not Duplication, Drives the Expansion of Protein Families in Prokaryotes

(2011) Todd J. Treangen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Alternative Pathways of Carbon Dioxide Fixation: Insights into the Early Evolution of Life?

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Genome Networks Root the Tree of Life between Prokaryotic Domains

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

Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence

(2010) Mark A. Lever et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

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

(2010) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Impact of temperature on the time required for the establishment of primordial biochemistry, and for the evolution of enzymes

(2010) R. B. Stockbridge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Enzymology of the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway of Acetogenesis

(2008) Stephen W. Ragsdale   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

tRNA's modifications bring order to gene expression

(2008) Estella M Gustilo et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution

(2008) T. Dagan 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