Capturing our closest archaeal relatives offers clues to the origin of eukaryotes

October 28, 2026 · 12:00 am 2 sources

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• Eukaryotes’ closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic peptidotrophic archaea
  Nature · October 28, 2026 00:00
  Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11170-7 Cultures reveal conservation of cell structure, physical symbioses and anaerobiosis across Heimdallarchaeia (the archaeal lineage that branches closest to eukaryotes) and other Promethearchaeota.

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• Capturing our closest archaeal relatives offers clues to the origin of eukaryotes
  Phys.org · October 29, 2026 16:00
  A collaborative research team led by Hiroyuki Imachi and Masaru K. Nobu of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Satoshi Nakagawa of Kyoto University has for the first time isolated and cultivated two strains of Heimdallarchaeia, a group of archaea that are among…