Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

From his previous research, Sorokin knew that the lakes’ denizens contained a gene for part of the methane-processing methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) complex, but he didn’t know which microbial ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study establishes divergent transcription—the reading of genes in ...

There are two major types of hypothesis about how eukaryotes and their nuclei may have originated (Poole & Penny 2007). One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria ...