Endosymbiosis and eukaryotic cell evolution

JM Archibald - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Understanding the evolution of eukaryotic cellular complexity is one of the grand challenges
of modern biology. It has now been firmly established that mitochondria and plastids, the …

On the age of eukaryotes: evaluating evidence from fossils and molecular clocks

L Eme, SC Sharpe, MW Brown… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships among eukaryotic lineages has
improved dramatically over the few past decades thanks to the development of sophisticated …

Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

JJ Brocks, BJ Nettersheim, P Adam, P Schaeffer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Eukaryotic life appears to have flourished surprisingly late in the history of our planet. This
view is based on the low diversity of diagnostic eukaryotic fossils in marine sediments of mid …

Origin and evolution of polycyclic triterpene synthesis

C Santana-Molina, E Rivas-Marin… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Polycyclic triterpenes are members of the terpene family produced by the cyclization of
squalene. The most representative polycyclic triterpenes are hopanoids and sterols, the …

A distinct pathway for tetrahymanol synthesis in bacteria

AB Banta, JH Wei, PV Welander - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Tetrahymanol is a polycyclic triterpenoid lipid first discovered in the ciliate Tetrahymena
pyriformis whose potential diagenetic product, gammacerane, is often used as a biomarker …

Organic geochemistry, sedimentology and palaeontology of the Khatyspyt Formation, Arctic Siberia: Towards an integrated view of Ediacaran biofacies

D Melnik, T Parfenova, V Rogov, JP Duda… - Precambrian …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (ca. 550–544 Ma) of Arctic Siberia
has been a prime target for geobiological research. Previous evidence suggested that …

Novel Hydrogenosomes in the Microaerophilic Jakobid Stygiella incarcerata

MM Leger, L Eme, LA Hug… - Molecular Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrion-related organelles (MROs) have arisen independently in a wide range of
anaerobic protist lineages. Only a few of these organelles and their functions have been …

A multigene timescale and diversification dynamics of Ciliophora evolution

NM Fernandes, CG Schrago - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Ciliophora is one of the most diverse lineages of unicellular eukaryotes. Nevertheless, a
robust timescale including all main lineages and employing properly identified ciliate fossils …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the thermotolerant industrial yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus for anaerobic growth

WJC Dekker, RA Ortiz-Merino, A Kaljouw, J Battjes… - Metabolic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Current large-scale, anaerobic industrial processes for ethanol production from renewable
carbohydrates predominantly rely on the mesophilic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Use …

Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmospheres

S Seager, J Huang, JJ Petkowski, M Pajusalu - Nature Astronomy, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Theory and observation for the search for life on exoplanets via atmospheric
'biosignature gases' is accelerating, motivated by the capabilities of the next generation of …