For 15 years, the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) has been divided into five to eight major
grou**s, known as 'supergroups'. However, the tree has been profoundly rearranged …

Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized our knowledge of the eukaryotic tree of life. With
the advent of genomics, a new discipline of phylogenetics has emerged: phylogenomics …

INTRODUCTION Bacteria are the most diverse and abundant cellular organisms on Earth,
and in recent years environmental genomics has revealed the existence of an enormous …

Reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships that unite all lineages (the tree of life) is a
grand challenge. The paucity of homologous character data across disparately related …

Ancestor–descendent relations play a cardinal role in evolutionary theory. Those relations
are determined by rooting phylogenetic trees. Existing rooting methods are hampered by …

Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

Our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships among eukaryotic lineages has
improved dramatically over the few past decades thanks to the development of sophisticated …

The kinetochore is the macromolecular protein complex that directs chromosome
segregation in eukaryotes. It has been widely assumed that the core kinetochore consists of …

Background Although the origin of the eukaryotic cell has long been recognized as the
single most profound change in cellular organization during the evolution of life on earth …

The root of the eukaryote tree of life defines some of the most fundamental relationships
among species. It is also critical for defining the last eukaryote common ancestor (LECA), the …