The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

On the Origin of Heterotrophy

(2016) Peter Schönheit et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Principles of Geobiochemistry

(2015) Everett L. Shock et al.   Elements

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

(2015) Kasie Raymann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathways for abiotic organic synthesis at submarine hydrothermal fields

(2015) Jill M. McDermott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methane metabolism in the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

(2015) P. N. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes

(2014) Joan B. Broderick et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Abiotic Gas: Atypical, But Not Rare

(2014) G. Etiope et al.   Elements

Phylogenomic reconstruction of archaeal fatty acid metabolism

(2014) Daria V. Dibrova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

Autotrophy at the thermodynamic limit of life: a model for energy conservation in acetogenic bacteria

(2014) Kai Schuchmann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Models of gene gain and gene loss for probabilistic reconstruction of gene content in the last universal common ancestor of life

(2013) Lavanya Kannan et al.   Biology Direct

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh 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

The energetics of organic synthesis inside and outside the cell

(2013) J. P. Amend et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

(2013) M. O. Schrenk et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

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

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

MODOMICS: a database of RNA modification pathways—2013 update

(2012) Magdalena A. Machnicka et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Methanogens: a window into ancient sulfur metabolism

(2012) Yuchen Liu et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Acetogenesis in the Energy-Starved Deep Biosphere – A Paradox?

(2012) Mark Alexander Lever   Frontiers in Microbiology

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq): current status, new features and genome annotation policy

(2011) K. D. Pruitt et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

The Newick utilities: high-throughput phylogenetic tree processing in the UNIX shell

(2010) T. Junier et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme

(2010) Rafael F. Say et al.   NATURE

A Mild Hydrothermal Route to Fix Carbon Dioxide to Simple Carboxylic Acids

(2010) Chao He et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Nickel-based Enzyme Systems

(2009) Stephen W. Ragsdale   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

(2008) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE

tRNAdb 2009: compilation of tRNA sequences and tRNA genes

(2008) F. Juhling et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE