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T. A. Mahendrarajah, E. R. R. Moody, D. Schrempf, L. L. Szantho, N. Dombrowski, A. A. Davin, D. Pisani, P. Donoghue, G. J. Szollosi, T. A. Williams, A. Spang
This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of ATP synthase using a cross-braced dated tree of life, showing early divergence of F- and A/V-type lineages and timing of eukaryogenesis.
Nature Communications · Nov 17, 2023Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology
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
J. N. Hamm, Y. Liao, A. von Kügelgen, N. Dombrowski, E. Landers, C. Brownlee, E. M. V. Johansson, R. M. Whan, M. A. B. Baker, B. Baum, T. A. M. Bharat, I. G. Duggin, A. Spang, R. Cavicchioli
This study identifies a parasitic lifestyle in a DPANN archaeon that causes host cell lysis, suggesting a predatory-like interaction similar to viruses.
bioRxiv · Feb 24, 2023Microbiology
S. Krause, G. Sabrina, C. Reuse, N. Dombrowski, L. Villanueva, B. Bunk, C. Spöer, T. R. Neu, U. Kuhlicke, K. Schmidt-Hohagen, K. Hiller, R. Rachel, A. Spang, J. Gescher
This study reports the enrichment of a stable co-culture of Micrarchaeota with its host and identifies dependencies on host-derived metabolites for growth.
bioRxiv · Apr 28, 2021 · PreprintMicrobiology
E. R. R. Moody, T. A. Mahendrarajah, N. Dombrowski, J. W. Clark, C. Petitjean, P. Offre, G. J. Szöllosi, A. Spang, T. A. Williams
The paper estimates the deepest branches of the tree of life by analyzing marker genes and shows that current methods underestimate the Archaea-Bacteria branch length due to substitutional saturation and poor model fit.
bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2021Evolutionary Biology
T. Mayer, A. Mari, J. Almario, M. Murillo-Roos, M. Abdullah, N. Dombrowski, S. Hacquard, E. M. Kemen, M. T. Agler
The paper introduces blocking oligos and an R package to reduce non-target DNA amplification in amplicon sequencing, improving microbial diversity analysis in plant systems.
bioRxiv · Oct 5, 2020Microbiology
N. Dombrowski, T. A. Williams, J. Sun, B. J. Woodcroft, J.-H. Lee, B. Q. Minh, C. Rinke, A. Spang
The paper reconstructs genomes of Undinarchaeota, a new DPANN archaeal lineage, and analyzes their phylogenetic placement and potential gene exchange with hosts.
bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology
A. D. Steen, R. T. Kevorkian, J. T. Bird, N. Dombrowski, B. J. Baker, S. M. Hagen, K. H. Mulligan, J. M. Schmidt, A. T. Webber, T. M. Royalty, M. J. Alperin
The paper measures extracellular peptidase kinetics and identifies peptidase classes in anoxic estuarine sediments, showing adaptation to degraded organic matter.
bioRxiv · Jul 15, 2019 · PreprintEcology
K. W. Seitz, N. Dombrowski, L. Eme, A. Spang, J. Lombard, J. R. Sieber, A. P. Teske, T. J. G. Ettema, B. J. Baker
The paper identifies a new archaeal phylum, Helarchaeota, capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon oxidation, based on genomic analysis of deep-sea sediment metagenomes.
bioRxiv · Jan 24, 2019Microbiology
K. Schwank, T. L. V. Bornemann, N. Dombrowski, A. Spang, J. F. Banfield, A. J. Probst
The paper identifies a host-symbiont relationship between two uncultivated archaea in a deep aquifer, showing co-occurrence and metabolic interdependence.
bioRxiv · Dec 11, 2018Microbiology