#eukaryote — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eukaryote, aggregated by home.social.
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‘We’re All Asgardians’ a talk on the origins of Eukaryotes (us) with implications for our present-day immune systems by Brett Baker, University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Baker inaugurated the EPS Wares Distinguished Public Lecture series.
Eukaryotic cells are most closely related to the 'Hod' branch of the Asgard branch of the Archaea.
#Eukaryote #Archaea #Evolution #UTAustin #McGillIUniversity #EarthSystemScience #WaresLecture
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When was the first time life began to prey on each other? https://phys.org/news/2022-12-life-began-prey.html
A case for an active #eukaryotic marine #biosphere during the #Proterozoic era: Lisa Eckford-Soper et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2122042119
"We use a size- & trait-based ecosystem model to show that the #microfossil record is most compatible with an active #eukaryote #ecosystem conducting #osmotrophy, #photosynthesis, #phagotrophy. Marine #ecosystems 1,700-780 Ma were far more active, diverse than generally thought."