#archaea — Public Fediverse posts
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'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn't alive?
Study suggests this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but twice.
Two main lineages of #life – #bacteria and #archaea – may have independently figured out the secrets of metabolism that upgraded them from non-living to living, according to study.
https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice -
'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn't alive?
Study suggests this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but twice.
Two main lineages of #life – #bacteria and #archaea – may have independently figured out the secrets of metabolism that upgraded them from non-living to living, according to study.
https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice -
Among biologists, few questions have been debated as fiercely as the origin of life.
How did self-sustaining organisms, capable of transforming molecules to capture energy, arise on the primitive Earth?
A new study challenges the assumption that all #life descended from one free-living cell.
Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the #bacteria and #archaea, evolved independently from a #primordial, nonliving ancestor.
#biology #evolution #abiogenesis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-new-study-points-to-two-origins-of-life-on-earth-by-tracing-early-chemical-reactions-in-single-celled-organisms-180989260/Paper by Mrnjavac et al. (2026):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef3128 -
Among biologists, few questions have been debated as fiercely as the origin of life.
How did self-sustaining organisms, capable of transforming molecules to capture energy, arise on the primitive Earth?
A new study challenges the assumption that all #life descended from one free-living cell.
Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the #bacteria and #archaea, evolved independently from a #primordial, nonliving ancestor.
#biology #evolution #abiogenesis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-new-study-points-to-two-origins-of-life-on-earth-by-tracing-early-chemical-reactions-in-single-celled-organisms-180989260/Paper by Mrnjavac et al. (2026):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef3128 -
Microbial World: Bacteria and Archaea by Mahmut Çaliskan & Muzaffer Arikan, 2026
In a world replete with microorganisms, humans have evolved alongside these tiny entities, sharing the same environment and establishing intricate relationships with them. This book covers the world of bacteria and archaea, two groups of microorganisms that have played both beneficial and detrimental roles in different environments.
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Microbial World: Bacteria and Archaea by Mahmut Çaliskan & Muzaffer Arikan, 2026
In a world replete with microorganisms, humans have evolved alongside these tiny entities, sharing the same environment and establishing intricate relationships with them. This book covers the world of bacteria and archaea, two groups of microorganisms that have played both beneficial and detrimental roles in different environments.
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New post: Road To Bloodstock 2026: Archaea https://moshville.co.uk/interview/2026/07/road-to-bloodstock-2026-archaea/ #Archaea #Bloodstock
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New post: Bloodstock 2026 unleashes M2TM finalists, beverage lineups, 2027 ticket details and more! https://moshville.co.uk/news/tours/2026/07/bloodstock-2026-unleashes-m2tm-finalists-beverage-lineups-2027-ticket-details-and-more/ #Archaea #Bloodstock #Carrier #MartyrsSaint
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Question for #archaea and #microbiology folks.
A collaborator specializing in archaeal morphology and microscopy is looking for a US based conference to present a small study (poster), ideally this year. She's early career, finishing up her master's and going into phd.
I think most of the usual suspects are all done for 2026, but looking to see if there are more out there!
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Question for #archaea and #microbiology folks.
A collaborator specializing in archaeal morphology and microscopy is looking for a US based conference to present a small study (poster), ideally this year. She's early career, finishing up her master's and going into phd.
I think most of the usual suspects are all done for 2026, but looking to see if there are more out there!
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For #bbm2026 folks - come check out my poster on 3FL, #21! It's part of the data going out on my soon-to-be published preprint, some aspects can definitely use feedback.
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For #bbm2026 folks - come check out my poster on 3FL, #21! It's part of the data going out on my soon-to-be published preprint, some aspects can definitely use feedback.
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What I'm also doing is assessing 3rd party sequencing vendor ONT output quality using some variations of these tools. Feel free to get in touch if you have a sequencing vendor you want to either recommend or have assessed!
#sequencing #microbiology #archaea #ONT #nanopore #bioinformatics
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What I'm also doing is assessing 3rd party sequencing vendor ONT output quality using some variations of these tools. Feel free to get in touch if you have a sequencing vendor you want to either recommend or have assessed!
#sequencing #microbiology #archaea #ONT #nanopore #bioinformatics
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Mad 4AM dash to wrap up a #Julialang tool for #archaea lab collaboration. Pure terminal UnicodePlots pipe for assessing & plotting raw BAM reads quality then generating length x quality plot animation in mp4.
The whole thing takes seconds even for pretty large BAMs - necessary since we'll be sequencing and analyzing over a hundred archaeal species.
Also, guys, mastodon media attachment support is leagues better than bsky or twitter. Holy cow.
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Mad 4AM dash to wrap up a #Julialang tool for #archaea lab collaboration. Pure terminal UnicodePlots pipe for assessing & plotting raw BAM reads quality then generating length x quality plot animation in mp4.
The whole thing takes seconds even for pretty large BAMs - necessary since we'll be sequencing and analyzing over a hundred archaeal species.
Also, guys, mastodon media attachment support is leagues better than bsky or twitter. Holy cow.
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Leaving for DC on Amtrak - #ASMicrobe2026 woot! If anyone around here wants to chat about #archaea, #sequencing, or independent research please feel free to drop a note or come say hi!
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Leaving for DC on Amtrak - #ASMicrobe2026 woot! If anyone around here wants to chat about #archaea, #sequencing, or independent research please feel free to drop a note or come say hi!
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@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 18/05/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 20:00
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termino: 22.20
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
@johncarlosbaez I do not know, yet.
I'd love a masto gut ecologist to teach me all about it. Google is not my friend on this one (and more generally of course, more and more)
#microbiome #archaea #inOurTime #statins -
@johncarlosbaez I do not know, yet.
I'd love a masto gut ecologist to teach me all about it. Google is not my friend on this one (and more generally of course, more and more)
#microbiome #archaea #inOurTime #statins -
Found during a morning shift - maybe I'm just uninitiated but this part absolutely blew my weariness away.
For those who don't know I've been digging into extra chromosomal rrns in Archaea for about two years now - preprint coming this summer!
Those in the know with RNA/ribosome research, what do you think about this one? I'm curious to know.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3003780
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Found during a morning shift - maybe I'm just uninitiated but this part absolutely blew my weariness away.
For those who don't know I've been digging into extra chromosomal rrns in Archaea for about two years now - preprint coming this summer!
Those in the know with RNA/ribosome research, what do you think about this one? I'm curious to know.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3003780
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@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 29/04/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 18:00
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 29/04/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 18:00
Pausa: 18.40
reanudo:
termino:
EQUIPO
1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
In Our Time on Archaea.
Did you know that #statins, (thanks yes, I'll have mine now) kill #methanogenic #archaea in your gut?
Who knew:
That there are methanogenic archaea?
That archaea live in you as well as on mid ocean vents and in madsalty Lake Eyre?
That statins kill them while leaving eukaryotic beasties unharmed?
I am amazed.And, does anyone know what my gut will do now without its farty archaea? Do I need them? Are they helpers, freeloaders or baddies?
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In Our Time on Archaea.
Did you know that #statins, (thanks yes, I'll have mine now) kill #methanogenic #archaea in your gut?
Who knew:
That there are methanogenic archaea?
That archaea live in you as well as on mid ocean vents and in madsalty Lake Eyre?
That statins kill them while leaving eukaryotic beasties unharmed?
I am amazed.And, does anyone know what my gut will do now without its farty archaea? Do I need them? Are they helpers, freeloaders or baddies?
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@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 22/04/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 19:00
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termino:
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
A bacteriologist studies bacteria. An archaeologist doesn't study archaea. #FalseAdvertising
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A bacteriologist studies bacteria. An archaeologist doesn't study archaea. #FalseAdvertising
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Got registration scholarship to Boston Bacterial Meeting 2026, woot!
Will be reporting a pretty exciting (for me at least) observation from Haloarchaea sequencing project I've been running since 2024. Hopefully I can find some collaborators - I've been running into walls.
Also glad that bacterial meeting's accepting archaea related abstracts too!
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Got registration scholarship to Boston Bacterial Meeting 2026, woot!
Will be reporting a pretty exciting (for me at least) observation from Haloarchaea sequencing project I've been running since 2024. Hopefully I can find some collaborators - I've been running into walls.
Also glad that bacterial meeting's accepting archaea related abstracts too!
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Happy to have made a small contribution for @GB13Faithless's paper. Hope this is just one of many examples in independent researcher collaboration with academic scientists!
#archaea folks, this pipeline rules for global baseline annotation of archaea
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Happy to have made a small contribution for @GB13Faithless's paper. Hope this is just one of many examples in independent researcher collaboration with academic scientists!
#archaea folks, this pipeline rules for global baseline annotation of archaea
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#Archaea & #microbiology folks - I'm curious. How do you feel about the dorado polish bacteria mode for your archaeal ONT long read assembled genomes? I know it holds up well with bacteria, but archaea's always been a bit funny.
Polypolish-pypolca combo is great, but they need short reads and I want to stick with long reads whenever I can (purely for logistic reasons)
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#Archaea & #microbiology folks - I'm curious. How do you feel about the dorado polish bacteria mode for your archaeal ONT long read assembled genomes? I know it holds up well with bacteria, but archaea's always been a bit funny.
Polypolish-pypolca combo is great, but they need short reads and I want to stick with long reads whenever I can (purely for logistic reasons)
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@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 18/03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 21:00
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?
At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem -
How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?
At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem -
@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 16/03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 18:00
Pausa: 20:00
reanudo: 20:20
termino: 21:00
EQUIPO
1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha: 11/03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 21:00
Pausa: 21:30
reanudo: 21:40
termino: 22:15
EQUIPO
1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel0
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Nitrosopumilus maritimus is a highly adaptable species of #marine #archaea that accounts for approximately 30% of the marine #microbial #plankton population and plays a vital role in regulating the ocean's biological and chemical balance amid climate change.
#Microbiology #MarineBiology #Environmental #GlobalChangeBiology #OceanBiogeochemistry #ClimateChange #sflorg
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Nitrosopumilus maritimus is a highly adaptable species of #marine #archaea that accounts for approximately 30% of the marine #microbial #plankton population and plays a vital role in regulating the ocean's biological and chemical balance amid climate change.
#Microbiology #MarineBiology #Environmental #GlobalChangeBiology #OceanBiogeochemistry #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/mcb03092601.html -
@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha:04 /03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 18:54
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termino: 22:00
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
Naya'ni
@Zamoranaya
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha:03 /03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 17:40
Pausa: 18:30
reanudo: 18:50
termino: 22:00
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
#LABioinformacionEnLinea
#Laboratorio Virtual #BIOinformación
#BIOliteratura #PE203625 #Zotero #Biotecnología #UnADM
#TeamArchaea #Archaea
#SMA20261 #MatemáticasAplicadas2025
🗓️Fecha:02 /03/2026lectura de articulos
Inicio: 20:00
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termino: 22:00
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1. @lma
2. @jahm110517
3. @israelmv
4. @KarenHerrera
5. @t0r120
6. @milanromglez17
7. @lupitabiotec
8. @malu_vel -
Paleobathymetry by looking at Archaeal lipid chemical structures. Very cool.
https://smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2026/02/past-ocean-depths/
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The highest resolution DNA-free TaXPD structure to date uniquely resolves loop 510–514 in the long-form, DNA-free TaXPD model #Helicases #Archaea https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X26000105
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Eine absolute Hörempfehlung ist dieser sehr gut gemachte #Podcast vom #DLF über das größte zusammenhänge Ökosystem unserer Erde und die Frage wie (mikrobielles) Leben in den tiefsten Tiefen möglich ist.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/leben-unterwelt-wo-endet-tiefe-biosphaere-100.html/
@MARUM
#Mikrobiologie #Microbiology #Bacteria #Bakterien #Archaea #Archaeen -
Fresh WIP piece of #Archaea #phylogenetics data for a collaborator.
Those barplot margins are driving me crazy - it's actually throwing off the immediate impression of the data! (pink bars are essentially all 1/2 or less of the orange bars, which is pretty important in context) I really need to buckle down and get to hand-coding my trees from scratch using #rlang or #julialang soon.
Hmm. How's Julia ecosystem for phylogenetic trees these days?
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How these strange #cells may explain the origin of complex life
Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how #eukaryotes emerged
#Archaea: single-celled organisms that look much like bacteria. 10ya, new group called #AsgardArchaea was identified in sediments from Atlantic. Nothing like us: They live mostly in places with little or no oxygen, and almost unbelievably ancient, perhaps 3B yr. Yet their #DNA shows they are close to humans on tree of life
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cells-origin-of-life-asgard-archaea
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Happy 2026 everyone! Here's a Binomica labs retrospective post. An amateur independent researcher's perspective on genome sequencing, academic conferences and approaching research themes undertaken through 2025
#independentresearch #archaea #microbiology #conference
https://naturepoker.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/welcoming-2026-independent-research-retrospective/
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"The rise of the eukaryotes was one of the most important events in Earth’s history. If it had not occurred, there would be no great white sharks, no towering redwood trees, no hovering hummingbirds and no people. Just slimy layers of bacteria and archaea, everywhere. And the Asgard archaea may have started it all."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cells-origin-of-life-asgard-archaea
#Life #Eukaryotes #Archaea #Asgard #Cells #Biology #Evolution #Genetics
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Complex #life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed.
Nee findings indicate that complex organisms evolved long before there were substantial levels of #oxygen in the #atmosphere, something which had previously been considered a prerequisite to the #evolution of complex life.
The #earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, with the first #microbial life forms appearing over 4 billion years ago.
These organisms consisted of two groups – #bacteria and the distinct but related #archaea, collectively known as #prokaryotes.
Prokaryotes were the only form of life on earth for hundreds of millions of years, until more complex eukaryotic cells including organisms such as #algae, #fungi, #plants and #animals evolved.
Previous ideas on how and when early prokaryotes transformed into complex #eukaryotes has largely been in the realm of speculation. Estimates have spanned a billion years, as no intermediate forms exist and definitive fossil evidence has been lacking.
By collecting evidence from multiple #gene families in multiple biological systems and focusing on the features which distinguish eukaryotes from prokaryotes, researchers were able to begin to piece together the developmental pathway for complex life.
They obtained evidence that the transition began almost 2.9 billion years ago – almost a billion years earlier than by some other estimates – suggesting that the nucleus and other internal structures appear to have evolved significantly before #mitochondria.
The process of cumulative complexification seems to have taken place over a much longer time period than previously thought.
#biology
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/december/complex-life-developed-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-study-reveals.htmlPaper by Kay et al. (2025): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09808-z