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Archaea: the first domain of diversified life.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microbial Evolution and Systematics: Archaea and Bacteria.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026Review
- Elucidating the interplay between intracellular manganese-iron-ratio and radiotolerance across all domains of life.FEMS microbes · 2026Article
- Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Comparative genomics of DNA-binding transcription factors in archaeal and bacterial organisms.PloS one · 2021Article
- Bacterial Origin and Reductive Evolution of the CPR Group.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Testing Empirical Support for Evolutionary Models that Root the Tree of Life.Journal of molecular evolution · 2019Article
- Evolution of macromolecular structure: a 'double tale' of biological accretion and diversification.Science progress · 2018Review
- Rooting Phylogenies and the Tree of Life While Minimizing Ad Hoc and Auxiliary Assumptions.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2018Review
- Potential Effects of Horizontal Gene Exchange in the Human Gut.Frontiers in immunology · 2017Article
- Transfection Studies with Colloidal Systems Containing Highly Purified Bipolar Tetraether Lipids fromArchaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2017Article
- Coevolution Theory of the Genetic Code at Age Forty: Pathway to Translation and Synthetic Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- Comparative Analysis of Methanogenic Communities in Different Laboratory-Scale Anaerobic Digesters.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2016Article
- Arguments Reinforcing the Three-Domain View of Diversified Cellular Life.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2016Review
- A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution.Science advances · 2015Article
- Comparative mechanisms of protein transduction mediated by cell-penetrating peptides in prokaryotes.The Journal of membrane biology · 2015Article
- Computing the origin and evolution of the ribosome from its structure - Uncovering processes of macromolecular accretion benefiting synthetic biology.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2015Review
- A tree of cellular life inferred from a genomic census of molecular functions.Journal of molecular evolution · 2014Article
- A calibrated chronology of biochemistry reveals a stem line of descent responsible for planetary biodiversity.Frontiers in genetics · 2014Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The study of the origin of diversified life has been plagued by technical and conceptual difficulties, controversy, and apriorism. It is now popularly accepted that the universal tree of life is rooted in the akaryotes and that Archaea and Eukarya are sister groups to each other. However, evolutionary studies have overwhelmingly focused on nucleic acid and protein sequences, which partially fulfill only two of the three main steps of phylogenetic analysis, formulation of realistic evolutionary models, and optimization of tree reconstruction. In the absence of character polarization, that is, the ability to identify ancestral and derived character states, any statement about the rooting of the tree of life should be considered suspect. Here we show that macromolecular structure and a new phylogenetic framework of analysis that focuses on the parts of biological systems instead of the whole provide both deep and reliable phylogenetic signal and enable us to put forth hypotheses of origin. We review over a decade of phylogenomic studies, which mine information in a genomic census of millions of encoded proteins and RNAs. We show how the use of process models of molecular accumulation that comply with Weston's generality criterion supports a consistent phylogenomic scenario in which the origin of diversified life can be traced back to the early history of Archaea.
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