A recent discovery of organic compounds in ancient rocks in Australia helps illuminate the early history of eukaryotes, suggesting that this group was already abundant more than a billion years ...

They all have genomes and cellular machinery neatly packed into membrane-bound compartments, an organizational system that places them in an immensely successful group of life forms called eukaryotes.

“It is clear now that there are additional contributions from additional partners,” says Gabaldón, who wrote about the early evolution of eukaryotes in the 2021 Annual Review of Microbiolog ...

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

Even as the number of sequenced archaeal and bacterial genomes continues to increase, offering new clues about the relationship between these microbes and the rise of early eukaryotic cells, many ...

The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and scientific think tank of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), announced today the release of its landmark report, ...

Some prokaryotes, such as planctomycetes, exhibit phagocytosis-like behaviors, challenging the assumption that cellular engulfment was unique to early eukaryotes. 3 This discovery implies that ...

The paper, published in the journal Papers in Paleontology, recounts an assemblage of eukaryotic fossils from an era early in the group’s evolutionary history. The authors describe four new taxa ...

The paper, published in the journal Papers in Paleontology, recounts an assemblage of eukaryotic fossils from an era early in the group’s evolutionary history. The authors describe four new taxa ...