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. 2018 Mar 29;14(3):e1007080.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007080. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

Anja Spang  1 , Laura Eme  1 , Jimmy H Saw  2 , Eva F Caceres  1 , Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka  1 , Jonathan Lombard  1 , Lionel Guy  3 , Thijs J G Ettema  1
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Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

Anja Spang et al. PLoS Genet. .
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