Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

Anja Spang; Laura Eme; Jimmy H Saw; Eva F Caceres; Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka; Jonathan Lombard; Lionel Guy; Thijs J G Ettema

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007080

Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

PLoS Genet. 2018 Mar 29;14(3):e1007080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007080. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Authors

Anja Spang¹, Laura Eme¹, Jimmy H Saw², Eva F Caceres¹, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka¹, Jonathan Lombard¹, Lionel Guy³, Thijs J G Ettema¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
² Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America.
³ Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Archaea / genetics*
Eukaryota / genetics*
Euryarchaeota
Genome, Archaeal
Prokaryotic Cells

Grants and funding

This work is supported by grants of the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 310039-PUZZLE_CELL), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF-FFL5), and the Swedish Research Council (VR grant 2015–04959), awarded to TJGE. LE is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 704263. JL is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers from the Wenner-Gren Foundations in Stockholm (UPD2016-0072). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.