Wen-Cong Huang

Phylogenetic reconciliation supports a methanogenic ancestor of the Archaea and a derived origin for host-associated lineages

The paper uses phylogenetic methods to determine the root of the Archaea, finding support for a methanogenic ancestor and a derived origin for host-associated lineages.

Microcompartments in archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesis

The paper identifies archaeal microcompartments in Hodarchaeales, showing they enhance energy production and may have contributed to eukaryogenesis.

Phylogenomic analyses reveal that Panguiarchaeum is a clade of genome-reduced Asgard archaea within the Njordarchaeia

This study resolves the phylogenetic position of Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales, placing them as a new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea and identifying Panguiarchaeum as a metabolically reduced, potentially symbiotic lineage.

Expanding diversity of Asgard archaea and the elusive ancestry of eukaryotes

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.