Archaeal Evolution

Latest research

1. Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes

   • Purificación López-García
   • David Moreira

   in Nature Ecology & Evolution

   Article 25 May 2026

   

2. Early fossil eukaryotes were benthic aerobes

   • Maxwell A. Lechte
   • Leigh Anne Riedman
   • Margaret Whelan

   in Nature

   Article 20 May 2026

   

3. Graphitization of marine kerogen and its effects on nanopores and adsorption performance

   • Guangming Meng
   • Xianming Xiao
   • Ping Gao

   in Science China Earth Sciences

   Article 20 May 2026

4. Origin of amphibole in evolving Variscan subcontinental lithospheric mantle: the Marais de Limagne xenoliths, Massif Central, France

   • Jacek Puziewicz
   • Sonja Aulbach
   • Małgorzata Ziobro-Mikrut

   in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

   Article Open access 16 May 2026

   

5. Convergent evolution of intestinal lineages in the phylum Methanobacteriota

   • Evgenii Protasov
   • Undine S. Mies
   • Andreas Brune

   in Microbiome

   Article Open access 02 May 2026

   

6. Multicellularity for free

   • Daniel B. Mills
   • Carl Simpson

   in Nature Ecology & Evolution

   Article 20 April 2026

   

7. Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

   • Reinier A. Egas
   • Heyu Lin
   • Cornelia U. Welte

   in Nature Communications

   Article Open access 14 April 2026

   

8. A new Chlorella-like microalgae Hoshinaea borealis gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) from Arctic ecosystems

   • Elena Krivina
   • Elizaveta Giulmisarian
   • Maria Sinetova

   in Plant Systematics and Evolution

   Article 12 April 2026

   

9. Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes

   • Linda C Horianopoulos
   • Antonis Rokas
   • Chris Todd Hittinger

   in The EMBO Journal

   Article Open access 10 April 2026

   

10. Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro delineates adaptive changes selected during infection

    • Greta Zaborskytė
    • Patrícia Coelho
    • Linus Sandegren

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 10 April 2026

    

11. Ecological drivers of Promethearchaeati’s specialization for deep subsurface environments

    • Lovell Smith
    • Karen G. Lloyd

    in Communications Biology

    Article Open access 06 April 2026

    

12. A pentose bisphosphate pathway of nucleotide degradation in Promethearchaeum syntrophicum

    • Li Liu
    • Chengxiang Gu
    • Meng Li

    in Science China Life Sciences

    Article 01 April 2026

13. Deep-branching Chloroflexota lineages illuminate the eco-evolutionary foundation of cross-ecosystem colonization

    • Lucas Serra Moncadas
    • Alisa Shakurova
    • Adrian-Stefan Andrei

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 01 April 2026

    

14. Temperature-driven metabolic adaptation in thermophilic microbial communities of Western Sichuan hot springs

    • Sainan Luo
    • Xiuzhen Chen
    • Jianing Geng

    in BMC Microbiology

    Article Open access 31 March 2026

    

15. Pampinifervens navoyensis sp. nov., an Extremely Thermophilic Facultatively Anaerobic Chemolithoautotrophic Bacterium from a Hot Spring at the Navoi Region (Uzbekistan)

    • T. G. Sokolova
    • A. Y. Merkel
    • N. A. Chernyh

    in Microbiology

    Article 26 March 2026

    

16. Mixed modes of satellite DNA and transposable element evolution, which shape the repetitive landscape of air-breathing catfishes (Clarias)

    • Artem Lisachov
    • Thitipong Panthum
    • Kornsorn Srikulnath

    in Chromosome Research

    Article 26 March 2026

    

17. The hydrogen, methane and ammonia biosphere on early Earth

    • Hiroshi Ohmoto
    • James Gregory Ferry

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 18 March 2026

    

18. Our microbial ancestors were probably oxygen-tolerant

    in Nature

    Article 18 March 2026

    

19. Tectonic Difference Leads to Distinct Microbial Communities in Hot Springs

    • Linxin Li
    • Svetlana Chernitsyna
    • Hongchen Jiang

    in Journal of Earth Science

    Article 13 March 2026

20. Asgard archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?

    • Christa Schleper
    • Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira

    in The EMBO Journal

    Article Open access 05 March 2026

    

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