A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classifications. Archaea and bacteria are both simple forms of cells called ...

An investigation into cellular components in bacteria has unexpectedly uncovered a feature with relevance across many life ...

An analysis of marker genes supports the theory that Archaea and Bacteria are separated by a long branch within the tree of life Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the ...

We have developed a machine-learning approach to identify 3537 discrete orthologue protein sequence groups distributed across all available archaeal genomes. We show that treating these orthologue ...

In a boiling corner of northern California, a single-celled creature is quietly rewriting the rules for how hot complex life ...