Expanding diversity of Asgard archaea and the elusive ancestry of eukaryotes
Yang Liu, Kira S. Makarova, Wen-Cong Huang, Yuri I. Wolf, Anastasia V. Nikolskaya, Xinxu Zhang, Mingwei Cai, Cui‐Jing Zhang, Wei Xu, Zhu-Hua Luo, Lei Cheng, Eugene V. Koonin, 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.
bioRxiv · Oct 19, 2020 · PreprintGenomics