A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

2025/03/12 by Kelsey Williamson, Laura Eme, Hector Baños +10 · 2 voices · 22 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08709-5

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Discussions

• I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1 [bsky, 152 points, 3 comments]
• いま気づいたが「側系統」の使い方がおかしい。わりとよく見かける誤解ではあるけど。 > We also do not recover a monophyletic Haptista or Amorphea (Amoebozoa + Obazoa), although paraphyly of the latter is not well supported. Williamson et al. [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]