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This project aims to uncover the origins of eukaryotic cells by identifying modern relatives of the ancestral archaeal and bacterial lineages. Using advanced single-cell genomics and phylogenomics, it will analyze environmental samples to enhance our understanding of early cellular evolution.
The origin of the eukaryotic cell represents an enigmatic yet dramatically incomplete evolutionary puzzle.
The few pieces of this puzzle that we have managed to identify thus far indicate that the eukaryotic cell most probably emerged via a fusion of an archaeal and an alphaproteobacterial cell.
Yet, beyond this, scientific debate is mainly engulfed by speculation, which, to a large extent, is fed by our poor understanding of the identity of these bacterial and archaeal fusion partners.
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UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
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