(B) The rooted three-domain tree. (C) The network of life. A: archaea; B: bacteria; E: eukaryote; LUCA: last universal common ancestor of cellular life-forms. The question mark indicates the ...
Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...
Study coauthor Anna-Louise Reysenbach, a Portland State University microbiologist, said in the release that she had often wondered how these archaea, which live near hydrothermal vents, compete for ...
Finally, the three-domain structure of Woese's tree (Figure 1a) shows that evolutionary history is decoupled from biological organization. Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar ...