The findings show that Earth's severe Cryogenian glaciations catalyzed a pivotal shift in the evolution and diversity of ...

The latest Virtual Issue from Genome Biology and Evolution highlights articles that provide new insight into the deep evolutionary relationships among extant organisms and the origin of eukaryotes ...

Researchers debate whether phagocytosis was needed to establish this relationship, but mitochondria did help power much of eukaryotes’ subsequent radiation. APPEARANCE OF UNIQUE FEATURES. Numerous ...

This first eukaryotic lineage would subsequently give rise to all higher organisms including plants and animals, ... Citation: Evolution: A revelatory relationship (2019 ...

Evolution: Revelatory relationship Date: December 27, 2019 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: A new study of the ecology of an enigmatic group of novel unicellular organisms ...

Arrival of the Asgards. After receiving her PhD in 2013, evolutionary microbiologist Anja Spang was shopping around for a postdoc. For her dissertation, Spang had studied a group of archaea called the ...

The evolution of eukaryotic cells represents one of the most pivotal transitions in the history of life, marked by the emergence of cellular compartmentalisation and increased complexity. Central ...

Here, it was clear that there simply is no controversy. In contrast to the arguments over bacterial trees and the origin of eukaryotes, none of the researchers felt compelled to explain or justify ...

They are simple eukaryotic microorganisms that do not fall into the plant, ... According to Simpson, we now know most of the evolutionary relationships amongst protists, ...

The discovery showcases “an example of the amazing evolutionary plasticity of eukaryotic cells,” said first author Anna Karnkowska, a protistologist at the University of British Columbia in ...