Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is a scholarly work by Anja Spang, Jimmy H. Saw, Steffen L Jørgensen, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Joran Martijn, Lionel Guy, and Christa Schleper, published in 2015 in ''Nature''. The main subjects of the publication include endosymbiont, Archaea, biology, eukaryote, RNA sequencing, ancestor, Marine microorganism, genetics, most recent common ancestor, computational biology, monophyly, phylum, evolutionary biology, genome, prokaryotes, phylogenetics, three-domain system, and ENCODE. The results provide strong support for hypotheses in which the eukaryotic host evolved from a bona fide archaeon, and demonstrate that many components that underpin eukaryote-specific features were already present in that ancestor.