The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited

Delineating the Rules for Structural Adaptation of Membrane-Associated Proteins to Evolutionary Changes in Membrane Lipidome

(2020) Maria Makarova et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

(2020) Hiroyuki Imachi et al.   NATURE

An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

(2019) Paul N. Evans et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea

(2019) Yinzhao Wang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea

(2019) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Nature Microbiology

Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota

(2019) Luke J. McKay et al.   Nature Microbiology

Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago

(2019) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens

(2019) Bojk A. Berghuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How to define obligatory anaerobiosis? An evolutionary view on the antioxidant response system and the early stages of the evolution of life on Earth

(2019) Ireneusz Ślesak et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

How superoxide reductases and flavodiiron proteins combat oxidative stress in anaerobes

(2019) Maria C. Martins et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Mosaic origin of the eukaryotic kinetochore

(2019) Eelco C. Tromer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

(2019) Kiley W. Seitz et al.   Nature Communications

Ectosymbiotic bacteria at the origin of magnetoreception in a marine protist

(2019) Caroline L. Monteil et al.   Nature Microbiology

Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche

(2019) Paul-Adrian Bulzu et al.   Nature Microbiology

Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism

(2019) Anja Spang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Syntrophy emerges spontaneously in complex metabolic systems

(2019) Eric Libby et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Eukaryogenesis, a syntrophy affair

(2019) Purificación López-García et al.   Nature Microbiology

Challenges in evidencing the earliest traces of life

(2019) Emmanuelle J. Javaux   NATURE

Phagocytosis-like cell engulfment by a planctomycete bacterium

(2019) Takashi Shiratori et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

(2019) Tom A. Williams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolutionary origins and specialisation of membrane transport

(2018) Joel B Dacks et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

ConvertingEscherichia coliinto an archaebacterium with a hybrid heterochiral membrane

(2018) Antonella Caforio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reversibility of citrate synthase allows autotrophic growth of a thermophilic bacterium

(2018) Achim Mall et al.   SCIENCE

Nuclear pore complexes as hubs for gene regulation

(2018) Maximiliano A. D'Angelo   Nucleus

Nuclear pore complexes as hubs for gene regulation

(2018) Maximiliano A. D'Angelo   Nucleus

Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria

(2018) Joran Martijn et al.   NATURE

A record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts

(2018) Daniel A. Stolper et al.   NATURE

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Relative timing of mitochondrial endosymbiosis and the “pre-mitochondrial symbioses” hypothesis

(2018) Toni Gabaldón   IUBMB LIFE

Genomes of Asgard archaea encode profilins that regulate actin

(2018) Caner Akıl et al.   NATURE

Functional shifts in microbial mats recapitulate early Earth metabolic transitions

(2018) Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Unveiling microbial interactions in stratified mat communities from a warm saline shallow pond

(2017) Aurélien Saghaï et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution

(2017) Purificación López-García et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

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Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

(2017) Laura Eme et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Eukaryotic ribosome assembly, transport and quality control

(2017) Cohue Peña et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Eukaryotic ribosome assembly, transport and quality control

(2017) Cohue Peña et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A Complex Endomembrane System in the Archaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis Tapped by Nanoarchaeum equitans

(2017) Thomas Heimerl et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genomic insights into potential interdependencies in microbial hydrocarbon and nutrient cycling in hydrothermal sediments

(2017) Nina Dombrowski et al.   Microbiome

The multiple evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic N-glycosylation pathway

(2016) Jonathan Lombard   Biology Direct

Crystal Structure of the HMG-CoA Synthase MvaS from the Gram-Negative BacteriumMyxococcus xanthus

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How did life survive Earth's great oxygenation?

(2016) Woodward W Fischer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane

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Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

(2016) Derek R Lovley   ISME Journal

Tracing the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System Building Blocks

(2016) Christen M. Klinger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Late acquisition of mitochondria by a host with chimaeric prokaryotic ancestry

(2016) Alexandros A. Pittis et al.   NATURE

Matworld - the biogeochemical effects of early life on land

(2016) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Life: the first two billion years

(2016) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotes and the Challenges of Inferring Phenotype from Genotype

(2016) Gautam Dey et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Bacterial Vesicle Secretion and the Evolutionary Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System

(2016) Sven B. Gould et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Myxobacteria: Moving, Killing, Feeding, and Surviving Together

(2016) José Muñoz-Dorado et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent

(2016) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Nature Microbiology

Rapid oxygenation of Earths atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

(2016) G. Luo et al.   Science Advances

Archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: not so elusive any more

(2015) Eugene V. Koonin   BMC BIOLOGY

The role of biology in planetary evolution: cyanobacterial primary production in low-oxygen Proterozoic oceans

(2015) Trinity L. Hamilton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

Bacterial gene import and mesophilic adaptation in archaea

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

Changing ideas about eukaryotic origins

(2015) Tom A. Williams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin

(2015) William F. Martin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity and origins of anaerobic metabolism in mitochondria and related organelles

(2015) Courtney W. Stairs et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin of eukaryotes from within archaea, archaeal eukaryome and bursts of gene gain: eukaryogenesis just made easier?

(2015) Eugene V. Koonin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective

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Open Questions on the Origin of Eukaryotes

(2015) Purificación López-García et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Contact- and Protein Transfer-Dependent Stimulation of Assembly of the Gliding Motility Machinery in Myxococcus xanthus

(2015) Beata Jakobczak et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

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

Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism

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Origin and Evolution of the Self-Organizing Cytoskeleton in the Network of Eukaryotic Organelles

(2014) G. Jekely   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

(2014) L. Eme et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The Dispersed Archaeal Eukaryome and the Complex Archaeal Ancestor of Eukaryotes

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From archaeon to eukaryote: the evolutionary dark ages of the eukaryotic cell

(2013) Joran Martijn et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Structural adaptations of proteins to different biological membranes

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Bacterial social networks: structure and composition ofMyxococcus xanthusouter membrane vesicle chains

(2013) Jonathan P. Remis et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Origin and Evolution of the Eukaryotic SSU Processome Revealed by a Comprehensive Genomic Analysis and Implications for the Origin of the Nucleolus

(2013) Jin-Mei Feng et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Improving the coverage of the cyanobacterial phylum using diversity-driven genome sequencing

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of intracellular compartmentalization

(2012) Yoan Diekmann et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

(2012) Igor B Rogozin et al.   Biology Direct

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

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Biogenesis and subcellular organization of the magnetosome organelles of magnetotactic bacteria

(2012) Shannon E Greene et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

(2012) J Kirk Harris et al.   ISME Journal

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

(2012) Jonathan Lombard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryote or eukaryote? A unique microorganism from the deep sea

(2012) Masashi Yamaguchi et al.   Microscopy

Uncovering the Mystery of Gliding Motility in the Myxobacteria

(2011) Beiyan Nan et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

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

(2011) Haruo Shimada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Phylogenomic Evidence for a Myxococcal Contribution to the Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Beta-Oxidation

(2011) Agatha Schlüter et al.   PLoS One

Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism

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Explaining the Structure of the Archean Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotope Record

(2010) I. Halevy et al.   SCIENCE

Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process

(2009) Katrin Knittel et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Endogenous Mechanisms for the Origins of Spliceosomal Introns

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Predation and eukaryote cell origins: A coevolutionary perspective

(2008) T. Cavalier-Smith   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Highly Bent Architecture of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus by Using Cryo-Electron Tomography

(2008) M. J. Borgnia et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The ecology and biotechnology of sulphate-reducing bacteria

(2008) Gerard Muyzer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: The stable core and the variable shell

(2008) T. Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryotic-like protein kinases in the prokaryotes and the myxobacterial kinome

(2008) J. Perez 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