Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
L. Eme, D. Tamarit, E. F. Caceres…·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.
DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06186-2