Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1678, 2015, Pages

  Saw, Jimmy H ^a   Spang, Anja ^a   Zaremba Niedzwiedzka, Katarzyna ^a   Juzokaite, Lina ^a   Dodsworth, Jeremy A ^b,d   Murugapiran, Senthil K ^b   Colman, Dan R ^c   Takacs Vesbach, Cristina ^c   Hedlund, Brian P ^b   Guy, Lionel ^a   Ettema, Thijs J G ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Eukaryogenesis; Metagenomics; Microbial diversity; Single cell genomics; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

ARCHAEAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84940706935     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0328     Document Type: Article

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