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Mingwei Cai

Shenzhen UniversityORCID 0000-0001-5312-4080Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Meng LiiD· 2 shared Yang LiuiD· 2 shared Anastasia V. NikolskayaiD· 1 shared Cui‐Jing ZhangiD· 1 shared Eugene V. KooniniD· 1 shared Ji-Dong Gu· 1 shared Jie Pan· 1 shared Kira S. MakarovaiD· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintOct 19, 2020

Expanding diversity of Asgard archaea and the elusive ancestry of eukaryotes

Yang Liu, Kira S. Makarova, Wen-Cong Huang…·Meng Li

The paper expands the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of Asgard archaea and suggests eukaryotes may have originated from an unknown ancestral lineage outside extant archaea.

12 citations

whole-genome sequencingstatistical model

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintJul 23, 2018

Asgard archaea are diverse, ubiquitous, and transcriptionally active microbes

Mingwei Cai, Yang Liu, Zhichao Zhou…·Meng Li

This study identifies 13 Asgard archaeal subgroups, reveals their widespread distribution in anaerobic environments, and provides evidence of their transcriptionally active mixotrophic lifestyle.

DOI 10.1101/374165

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