Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

TA Richards, L Eme, JM Archibald, G Leonard… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of
biology. A key challenge relevant to the question of eukaryogenesis is reconstructing the …

Dynamic remodeling of centrioles and the microtubule cytoskeleton in the lifecycle of chytrid fungi

AF Long, K Vasudevan, AJM Swafford, CM Venard… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Cells reorganize in space and time to move and divide-complex behaviors driven by their
internal cytoskeleton. While we have substantial knowledge of the molecular parts and rules …

Diverse ancestries reveal complex symbiotic interactions during eukaryogenesis

M Bernabeu, S Manzano-Morales, M Marcet-Houben… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The origin of eukaryotes remains a central enigma in biology. Ongoing debates agree on the
pivotal role of a symbiosis between an alpha-proteobacterium and an Asgard archaeon …

Rethinking large scale phylogenomics with EukPhylo v1. 0, a flexible toolkit to enable phylogeny-informed data curation and analyses of diverse eukaryotic lineages

LA Katz, A Cote-L'Heureux, M Leleu, G Ani, R Gawron - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Eukaryotic diversity is largely microbial, with macroscopic lineages (plant, animals and
fungi) nesting among a plethora of diverse protists. Understanding the evolutionary …