Very excited to see this!

"Thus, we can deduce that [the first eukaryote common ancestor] was an anaerobic, syntrophic, peptide-degrading, mesophilic archaeon that had simple cell structure with branching protrusions and no endomembrane system."
Reposted from Masaru Nobu
New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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