https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-look-how-archaea-package-their-dna-reveals-theyre-lot-us
Aug 8, 2019 - Archaea microbes spool their DNA much like plants and animals do.
archaeapackagednarevealslot
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640444v1
Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly ‘Asgard’ archaea)[1][1],[2][2]. The first cultured...
closestrelativessimplearchaeabiorxiv
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14447?error=cookies_not_supported&code=8414fcd5-c77c-49ba-9afb-1a01b1010ef3
May 6, 2015 - This study identifies a clade of archaea that is the immediate sister group of eukaryotes in phylogenetic analyses, and that also has a repertoire of proteins...
complexarchaeabridgegap
https://www.iflscience.com/asgard-archaea-are-these-single-celled-organisms-our-microbial-ancestors-75966
“It’s undeniable at this point that Asgard archaea contributed a lot to the complexity that we see in eukaryotes today.”
asgardarchaeasingleorganismsmicrobial