According to a study published January 11 in Nature, this archaeon may have been related to the Asgard archaea—a pantheon of microbes named for Norse gods, including Lokiarchaeota, Thorarchaeota, ...
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Live Science on MSNDefense system common to all life came from 'Asgard'The ancestor of plants, animals and fungi evolved around 2 billion years ago, likely from a group of complex microbes called ...
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Ancient microbes linked to evolution of human immune proteinsAccording to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, two key elements of our innate immune system came from a group of microbes called Asgard archaea. Specifically, viperins and ...
Leão and his team used a database of prokaryotic defense systems to study the distribution of complete systems in the genomes of archaea, including Asgard archaea, and bacteria. 7 The researchers ...
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