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NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 1, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.34
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- European Research Council [ERC AdG 666053]
- Leverhulme Trust
- UCL Research Frontiers Origins of Life Programme
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The nature of the host that acquired the mitochondrion at the eukaryote origin is an important microbial evolutionary issue. Modern phylogenetics indicates that the host was an archaeon. The metagenome sequence of Candidatus Lokiarchaeon has identified it as being the closest relative of the host yet known. Here, we report comparative genomic evidence indicating that Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent, as one theory for the eukaryote origin-the hydrogen hypothesis-predicts for the host lineage.
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