An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Therefore, the argument that viruses should be excluded from the tree of life because they cannot ... viruses evolve much faster than bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. We argue that if organisms ...

These archaea show diverse phylogenetic and genomic traits ... We also applied an up-to-date taxonomic framework, based on ASV clustering on the latest reference trees, which ensured a more precise ...

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain ... 11) Adam, P. S. et al. The growing tree of archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology. ISME J. 11, 2407–2425 (2017). 12) ...

MUSCLE v5 enables improved estimates of phylogenetic tree confidence by ensemble bootstrapping ... GToTree v1.6.31 (Lee 2019), using the prepackaged single-copy gene-set for archaea (76 target genes).

The congruence of the phylogenetic trees of intestinal bacterial microbiota and primates5 ... all branches of the tree of life (Animalia-Homo sapiens, and protozoa, fungi, archaea, bacteria conforming ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

Tree of life with one branch fewer In recent years, researchers have found growing indications of close links between Asgard archaea and eukaryotes, and that the latter may have evolved from the ...