Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

Nature

Volumn 541, Issue 7637, 2017, Pages 353-358

  Zaremba Niedzwiedzka, Katarzyna ^a   Caceres, Eva F ^a   Saw, Jimmy H ^a   Bäckström, DIsa ^a   Juzokaite, Lina ^a   Vancaester, Emmelien ^a,g   Seitz, Kiley W ^b   Anantharaman, Karthik ^c   Starnawski, Piotr ^d   Kjeldsen, Kasper U ^d   Stott, Matthew B ^e   Nunoura, Takuro ^f   Banfield, Jillian F ^c   Schramm, Andreas ^d   Baker, Brett J ^b   Spang, Anja ^a   Ettema, Thijs J G ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRAPP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COMPLEXITY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOMICS; HOST; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; ASGARD; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL MIGRATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC CODE; HOST CELL; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COP-COATED VESICLE; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COP-COATED VESICLES; EUKARYOTA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85009734290     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature21031     Document Type: Article

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