Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
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Origin of life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells
Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...
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Beyond Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes : Planctomycetes and Cell Organization
One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria ... Like Cell Biology of a Bacterium Planctomycete cell structure differs from that of all other known prokaryotes.
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically (members of both groups consist of tiny cells without much internal structure) and different from eukaryotes. However, until ...
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A Hunt for Clues to the Origins of the Eukaryotic Immune System
“If we keep looking for defense systems in Archaea through homologs of already described ones in bacteria, we won't find them.” Buzz Baum, a cell biologist studying archaea at the Medical Research ...