Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
L. Eme, D. Tamarit, E. F. Caceres, C. Stairs, V. de Anda, M.-E. Schon, K. Seitz, N. Dombrowski, W. H. Lewis, J. H. Saw, F. Homa, J. Lombard, T. Nunoura, W.-J. Li, Z.-S. Hua, , T. J. G. Ettema
The paper reconstructs the evolutionary ancestry of eukaryotes by analyzing Asgard archaea phylogenetic data and infers the last common ancestor of Asgard archaea and eukaryotes as a thermophilic chemolithotroph.
bioRxiv · Mar 7, 2023Evolutionary Biology