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According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, two key elements of our innate immune system came from a group of microbes called Asgard archaea. Specifically, viperins and ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have identified ancient proteins that may help explain how the first complex cells evolved from simpler ones over 1.5 billion years ago, Israel's Ben-Gurion ...

The planctomycetes: emerging models for microbial ecology, evolution and cell biology ... Archaebacteria (Archaea) and the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus. Curr Opin Microbiol 8, 630–637 ...

Bacteria and archaea cells just don’t have what it ... formed a symbiotic relationship called endosymbiosis. Through co-evolution over countless generations, the endosymbionts eventually become ...