The molecular signal for the adaptation to cold temperature during early life on Earth

M Groussin, B Boussau, S Charles… - Biology …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Several lines of evidence such as the basal location of thermophilic lineages in large-scale
phylogenetic trees and the ancestral sequence reconstruction of single enzymes or large …

Adaptation to environmental temperature is a major determinant of molecular evolutionary rates in archaea

M Groussin, M Gouy - Molecular biology and evolution, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Methods to infer the ancestral conditions of life are commonly based on geological and
paleontological analyses. Recently, several studies used genome sequences to gain …

Molecular constraints on a high-temperature evolution of early life

AL Reysenbach, S Seitzinger, J Kirshtein… - The Biological …, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
The debate over the early evolution of life remains complex and diverse. Inferences about
the early evolution of life can be obtained essentially from the physical (atmospheric …

Hyperthermophily and the origin and earliest evolution of life

S Islas, AM Velasco, A Becerra, L Delaye… - International …, 2003 - Springer
The possibility of a high-temperature origin of life has gained support based on indirect
evidence of a hot, early Earth and on the basal position of hyperthermophilic organisms in …

The hyperthermophilic origin of life revisited

DW Schwartzman… - Biochemical Society …, 2004 - portlandpress.com
We revisit the case for the hyperthermophilic scenario for the origin of life and the last
common ancestor. Evidence includes studies of phylogenetic trees, rRNA, G and C content …

The Phylogeny of Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles and the Three Domains of Life: The Phylogeny of Thermophiles

D Bhattacharya, T Friedl, H Schmidt - Enigmatic microorganisms and life in …, 1999 - Springer
The nature of the first cells and the environment in which they lived are two of the most
interesting problems in evolutionary biology. All living things are descendents of these …

The origin of life—did it occur at high temperatures?

SL Miller, A Lazcano - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1995 - Springer
A high-temperature origin of life has been proposed, largely for the reason that the
hyperthermophiles are claimed to be the last common ancestor of modern organisms. Even …

Do the geological and geochemical records of the early earth support the prediction from global phylogenetic models of a thermophilic cenancestor

JA Baross - Markers, 1998 - taylorfrancis.com
The rooted global phylogenetic model of Woese and colleagues (Woese et al., 1990;
Woese, 1994), based on 16S rRNA sequences, predicts that the oldest of extant organisms …

Characterization of reconstructed ancestral proteins suggests a change in temperature of the ancient biosphere

S Akanuma - Life, 2017 - mdpi.com
Understanding the evolution of ancestral life, and especially the ability of some organisms to
flourish in the variable environments experienced in Earth's early biosphere, requires …

Comparative genomics of thermophilic bacteria and archaea

S Akanuma, S Yokobori, A Yamagishi - Thermophilic Microbes in …, 2013 - Springer
Elucidation of the origin and the early evolution of life is fundamental to our understanding of
ancient living systems and of the ancient global environment where early life evolved. A …