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. 2020 Apr 16;181(2):232-235.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.058.

Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis

Purificación López-García  1 , David Moreira  2
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Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis

Purificación López-García et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

The first cultured Asgard archaeon lives in metabolic symbiosis with hydrogen-scavenging microbes. Its full-genome analysis authenticates the existence of Asgard archaea, previously only known from metagenome-assembled genomes, confirms their closer phylogenetic relatedness to eukaryotes and reinforces the idea that the eukaryotic cell evolved from an integrated archaeal-bacterial syntrophic consortium.

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