Laura Eme

The paper investigates redox distribution of Asgard archaea and co-occurring taxa in microbial mats from an early Proterozoic ecosystem analog, revealing their ecological niches and potential roles in early eukaryogenesis.

The paper re-evaluates the eukaryotic Tree of Life using an independent phylogenomic dataset, finding different placements for some lineages and supporting a small number of high-rank supergroup lineages.

The paper uses nucleomorph genes to reconstruct the phylogeny of cryptophyte plastids, finding they are sister to Cyanidiophytina, suggesting an ancient origin of red complex plastids outside known Rhodophyta subgroups.

This study reconstructs the evolution of SMC complexes across eukaryotes, showing LECA had all four types and condensin II was repeatedly lost.

This study estimates the root of the eukaryote Tree of Life using mitochondrial proteins, finding it between Opimoda+ and Diphoda+ supergroups.

The paper introduces GTRpmix, a model for profile mixture models that improves exchangeability matrix estimation for site-heterogeneous data, enhancing phylogenetic accuracy.

The paper analyzes metagenomes and proteomes from geothermal brines to show that archaea and bacteria have highly acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in extreme salinity conditions.

This paper describes the mitogenome of Mantamonas sphyraenae, which has the most gene-rich mitochondrial genome outside of jakobids, encoding a complete mitochondrial Sec translocation system.

This study analyzes five new Korarchaeota metagenome-assembled genomes to reveal their phylogenomic position and genomic adaptations to habitat switching.

The paper describes two new mantamonad species and provides transcriptomic and genomic data for one, offering insights into the CRuMs supergroup's evolutionary history.

PhyloMagnet screens meta-omics datasets for taxa and genes of interest using gene-centric assembly and phylogenetic placement, achieving high accuracy in taxonomic identification.