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  1. Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2024, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme, Dr Christophe Dessimoz

  2. A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  3. GTRpmix: A Linked General Time-Reversible Model for Profile Mixture Models

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  4. Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  5. A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system

    Article • Current Biology, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  6. Microbial Diversity and Open Questions about the Deep Tree of Life

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, April 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  7. GTRpmix: A linked general-time reversible model for profile mixture models

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  8. Lateral gene transfer leaves lasting traces in Rhizaria

    Article • March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  9. Expanded phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea shows multiple independent adaptations to hypersaline environments

    Article • Nature Microbiology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  10. Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  11. Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  12. A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system

    Article • February 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  13. Repeated duplications and losses shaped SMC complex evolution from archaeal ancestors to modern eukaryotes

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  14. Create, Analyze, and Visualize Phylogenomic Datasets Using PhyloFisher

    Article • Current Protocols, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr Laura Eme

  15. Phylogenetic reconciliation: making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and evolution

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  16. These microbes have been thriving without mitochondria since the age of dinosaurs!

    Article • PLoS Genetics, December 2023, PLOS

    Lukas Novak, Dr Laura Eme

  17. Phylogenomics and ancestral reconstruction of Korarchaeota reveals genomic adaptation to habitat switching

    Article • September 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  18. One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade

    Article • Scientific Data, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  19. Molecular and morphological characterization of four new ancyromonad genera and proposal for an updated taxonomy of the Ancyromonadida

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Laura Eme

  20. Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

    Article • Nature, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  21. Lateral gene transfer leaves lasting traces in Rhizaria

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  22. Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  23. A closed Candidatus Odinarchaeum chromosome exposes Asgard archaeal viruses

    Article • Nature Microbiology, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  24. Independent Size Expansions and Intron Proliferation in Red Algal Plastid and Mitochondrial Genomes

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  25. TreeTuner: A pipeline for minimizing redundancy and complexity in large phylogenetic datasets

    Article • STAR Protocols, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  26. Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  27. Anaeramoebae are a divergent lineage of eukaryotes that shed light on the transition from anaerobic mitochondria to hydrogenosomes

    Article • Current Biology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  28. A closed Candidatus Odinarchaeum genome exposes Asgard archaeal viruses

    Article • September 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  29. PhyloFisher: A phylogenomic package for resolving eukaryotic relationships

    Article • PLoS Biology, August 2021, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme

  30. Molecular characterization of the conoid complex in Toxoplasma reveals its conservation in all apicomplexans, including Plasmodium species

    Article • PLoS Biology, March 2021, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme

  31. The Mastigamoeba balamuthi Genome and the Nature of the Free-Living Ancestor of Entamoeba

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  32. Lateral Gene Transfer Mechanisms and Pan-genomes in Eukaryotes

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  33. Releasing uncurated datasets is essential for reproducible phylogenomics

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  34. Chlamydial contribution to anaerobic metabolism during eukaryotic evolution

    Article • Science Advances, August 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Laura Eme

  35. Marine Sediments Illuminate Chlamydiae Diversity and Evolution

    Article • Current Biology, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  36. PhyloMagnet: fast and accurate screening of short-read meta-omics data using gene-centric phylogenetics

    Article • Bioinformatics, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  37. The Oxymonad Genome Displays Canonical Eukaryotic Complexity in the Absence of a Mitochondrion

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  38. Nephromyces represents a diverse and novel lineage of the Apicomplexa that has retained apicoplasts

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, July 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  39. PhyloMagnet: Fast and accurate screening of short-read meta-omics data using gene-centric phylogenetics

    Article • July 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  40. A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum

    Article • Nature Microbiology, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  41. Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  42. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism

    Article • Nature Microbiology, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  43. New Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

    Article • January 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  44. Nuclear genome sequence of the plastid-lacking cryptomonad Goniomonas avonlea provides insights into the evolution of secondary plastids

    Article • BMC Biology, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  45. Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

    Article • Nature, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  46. The eukaryotic ancestor shapes up

    Article • Nature, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  47. Microbial eukaryotes have adapted to hypoxia by horizontal acquisitions of a gene involved in rhodoquinone biosynthesis

    Article • eLife, April 2018, eLife

    Dr Laura Eme

  48. Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

    Article • PLoS Genetics, March 2018, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme

  49. Demystifying Eukaryote Lateral Gene Transfer (Response to Martin 2017 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700115)

    Article • BioEssays, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Laura Eme

  50. Symbiosis in the microbial world: from ecology to genome evolution

    Article • Biology Open, February 2018, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Laura Eme

  51. Erratum: Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  52. Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Laura Eme

  53. Extreme genome diversity in the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis

    Article • PLoS Biology, September 2017, PLOS

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Laura Eme

  54. Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2017, Nature

    Dr Laura Eme

  55. Lateral Gene Transfer in the Adaptation of the Anaerobic Parasite Blastocystis to the Gut

    Article • Current Biology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  56. Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  57. Microbial Evolution: Xenology (Apparently) Trumps Paralogy

    Article • Current Biology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  58. The changing view of eukaryogenesis – fossils, cells, lineages and how they all come together

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, September 2016, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Laura Eme, Prof Mark C Field

  59. Novel Hydrogenosomes in the Microaerophilic JakobidStygiella incarcerata

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  60. Heme pathway evolution in kinetoplastid protists

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  61. A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle

    Article • Current Biology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  62. Gene Acquisitions from Bacteria at the Origins of Major Archaeal Clades Are Vastly Overestimated

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Laura Eme

  63. Archaea

    Article • Current Biology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  64. Gene fusion, fission, lateral transfer, and loss: Not-so-rare events in the evolution of eukaryotic ATP citrate lyase

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  65. Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi

    Article • Current Biology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  66. An ancestral bacterial division system is widespread in eukaryotic mitochondria

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Laura Eme

  67. Microbial Diversity: A Bonanza of Phyla

    Article • Current Biology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  68. Timing the Origins of Multicellular Eukaryotes Through Phylogenomics and Relaxed Molecular Clock Analyses

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  69. On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, August 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Laura Eme

  70. A SUF Fe-S Cluster Biogenesis System in the Mitochondrion-Related Organelles of the Anaerobic Protist Pygsuia

    Article • Current Biology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  71. Evolution of the Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Machinery in Blastocystis Species and Other Microbial Eukaryotes

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Laura Eme

  72. Metagenomics of Kamchatkan hot spring filaments reveal two new major (hyper)thermophilic lineages related to Thaumarchaeota

    Article • Research in Microbiology, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  73. The phylogenomic analysis of the anaphase promoting complex and its targets points to complex and modern-like control of the cell cycle in the last common ancestor of eukaryotes

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  74. A eukaryotic-like sulfiredoxin involved in oxidative stress responses and in the reduction of the sulfinic form of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120

    Article • New Phytologist, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Laura Eme

  75. A Complex Cell Division Machinery Was Present in the Last Common Ancestor of Eukaryotes

    Article • PLOS One, April 2009, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme