Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie with Asgard archaea, a group of ancient single-celled microbes that share ...

This step could have occurred aeons ago when an Asgard archaeon entwined a bacterium with its appendages. Over time, the nucleus and other compartments evolved, and the eukaryotic cell was born.

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

This step could have occurred eons ago when an Asgard archaeon entwined a bacterium with its appendages. In the course of evolution, this bacterium developed into a mitochondrion, which serves as the ...

Originating in the sediments of a brackish water channel in Slovenia, this Asgard archaeon was isolated by researchers in ...

Originating in the sediments of a brackish water channel in Slovenia, this Asgard archaeon was isolated by researchers in Christa Schleper's laboratory at the University of Vienna. In that study ...