The origin of the Eukarya is one of the most fascinating issues in biology. Eukaryotes possess numerous specific features that can be traced back to the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) (Box 1), ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discovered just over 60 years ago, extremophiles are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya that can survive in extremely salty, hot, cold, acidic, or ...

Three domains of living things, archaea, bacteria, and eukarya, are organized by shared characteristics fundamental to life: cellular organization, biochemistry, and molecular biology. However, these ...

In the February 5 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hyman Hartman and Alexei Fedorov describe the use of a genomic approach to investigate the relationship between Eukarya, Archaea and ...