Our paper is out in Nature Communications! 🌳🧬 We investigate the position of the archaeal root, the nature of the last archaeal common ancestor, and the evolution of DPANN archaea using state-of-the-art phylogenetic and gene-tree–species-tree reconciliation approaches. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Phylogenetic reconciliation supports a methanogenic ancestor of the Archaea and a derived origin for host-associated lineages - Nature Communications
Key questions about the early evolution of archaea remain unanswered. Here, Huang et al. use improved methods of genome evolution to propose a euryarchaeal root for archaea, a methanogenic ancestor, a...
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