Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Earliest photic zone niches probed by ancestral microbial rhodopsins
C. Sephus, E. Fer, A. K. Garcia…·B. Kacar
This study reconstructs the paleobiological history of ancestral microbial rhodopsins by combining phylogenetic analysis with environmental modeling to infer their functional roles and spectral tuning in early Earth niches.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msac100