Asgardarchaeota, commonly referred to as Asgard archaea, is a candidatus phylum-rank
archaeal clade that includes the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes. Despite their …

Asgard archaea are of great interest as the progenitors of Eukaryotes, but little is known
about the mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that may shape their ongoing evolution. Here, we …

The evolution of eukaryotes is a fundamental event in the history of life. The closest
prokaryotic lineage to eukaryotes, the Asgardarchaeota, encode proteins previously found …

Wetlands are one of the most crucial ecosystems for regulating carbon sequestration and
mitigating global climate change. However, the disturbance to carbon dynamics caused by …

Methane emissions are mitigated by anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea, including
Methanoperedens. Some Methanoperedens host huge extrachromosomal genetic elements …

Waste activated sludge (WAS) and crayfish shell waste represent significant organic
fractions of municipal solid waste that demand sustainable disposal and resource recovery …

Asgard archaea were pivotal in the origin of complex cellular life. Hodarchaeales
(Asgardarchaeota class Heimdallarchaeia) were recently shown to be the closest relatives …

Asgard archaea played a key role in the origin of the eukaryotic cell. While previous studies
found that Asgard genomes encode diverse eukaryotic signature proteins (ESPs) …

The Asgard archaea are a diverse archaeal phylum that includes the host lineage from
which eukaryotes evolved. Due to the importance of the Asgard archaea for our …

The ribosome is the universal translator of the genetic code and is shared across all life.
Despite divergence in ribosome structure over the course of evolution, the peptidyl …