Microbialites provide geological evidence of one of Earth's oldest ecosystems, potentially
recording long-standing interactions between coevolving life and the environment. Here, we …

Elucidating the diversity of the Archaea has many important ecological and evolutionary
implications. The Asgard superphylum of the archaea, described recently from metagenomic …

Asgardarchaeota harbour many eukaryotic signature proteins and are widely considered to
represent the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes. Whether similarities between Asgard …

The carbon cycle (C-cycle) is the most important and complex biogeochemical cycle in soil
ecosystems, but our understanding of C-cycle at the community level remains limited …

Eukaryotic genomes are known to have garnered innovations from both archaeal and
bacterial domains but the sequence of events that led to the complex gene repertoire of …

Soils harbor a vast diversity of soil microbiota, which play a crucial role in key ecosystem
processes such as litter transformation and mineralization, but how complex plant-soil …

Microbial mats are geobiological multilayered ecosystems that have significant evolutionary
value in understanding the evolution of early life on Earth. Shark Bay, Australia has some of …

Abstract Background Shark Bay, Australia, harbours one of the most extensive and diverse
systems of living microbial mats that are proposed to be analogs of some of the earliest …

The origin of the eukaryotic cell is one of the greatest mysteries in modern biology.
Eukaryotic-wide specific biological processes arose in the lost ancestors of eukaryotes …

Microbial mats are complex ecological assemblages that have been present in the rock
record since the Precambrian and can still be found in extant marginalized environments …