Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology

Violette Da Cunha; Morgan Gaia; Arshan Nasir; Patrick Forterre

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007215

Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology

PLoS Genet. 2018 Mar 29;14(3):e1007215. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007215. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Authors

Violette Da Cunha^{1 2}, Morgan Gaia¹, Arshan Nasir³, Patrick Forterre^{1 2}

Affiliations

¹ Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Département de Microbiologie, Paris, France.
² Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
³ Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Archaea*
Eukaryota*
Euryarchaeota
Phylogeny
Prokaryotic Cells

Grants and funding

VDC, MG, and PF are supported by a European Research Council (ERC) grant from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013)/Project EVOMOBIL-ERC Grant Agreement no. 340440. AN is supported by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.