“This is the most exciting and important paper on big questions about eukaryotic origins and the tree of life in years,” said evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Palmer of Indiana University, Bloomington, ...

“But what we don’t know, and that’s really important, is what these genes did or are doing in Asgard currently.” The question of where exactly eukaryotes branch on the tree of life has been debated by ...

F. Archaea and the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 61, 456–502 (1997) Doolittle, W. F. & Bapteste, E. Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life ...

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...