Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology

Violette Da Cunha (1, 2) , Morgan Gaia (1) , Arshan Nasir (3) , Patrick Forterre (2, 1)

1 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
2 I2BC - Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule
3 CIIT - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology [Islamabad]

Comment on: Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. [Nature. 2015] Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. [PLoS Genet. 2017]

Mots clés: Phylogenetic analysis; Archaea; Eukaryota; RNA sequence analysis; Phylogenetics; RNA polymerase; Eukaryotic evolution; Genome evolution

Domaines: Génétique; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

Violette Da Cunha, Morgan Gaia, Arshan Nasir, Patrick Forterre. Asgard archaea do not close the debate about the universal tree of life topology. PLoS Genetics, 2018, 14 (3), pp.e1007215. ⟨10.1371/journal.pgen.1007215⟩. ⟨hal-02177609⟩