An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Eukaryotes are thought to have originated through a process known as endosymbiosis, in which an ancestral prokaryotic cell engulfed another, forming a mutually beneficial relationship. Over time, the ...

All living organisms on Earth belong to one of three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryotes (also known as Eukarya). Bacteria and Archaea are single-celled microorganisms without a nucleus ...

Remarkably, Asgard archaea turned out to be more than just a new type of microbe: they may represent an evolutionary bridge between archaea and eukaryotes, the domain that includes all organisms with ...

Edited by Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received November 27, 2024; accepted February 21, 2025 ...