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  1. 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

  2. Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

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

    Dr Laura Eme

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

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

    Dr Laura Eme

  6. The eukaryotic ancestor shapes up

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

    Dr Laura Eme

  7. Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Laura Eme

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

    Article • PLoS Biology, September 2017, PLOS

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Laura Eme

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

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2017, Nature

    Dr Laura Eme

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

    Article • Current Biology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  11. Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  12. Microbial Evolution: Xenology (Apparently) Trumps Paralogy

    Article • Current Biology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  13. 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

  14. Novel Hydrogenosomes in the Microaerophilic JakobidStygiella incarcerata

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

    Dr Laura Eme

  15. Heme pathway evolution in kinetoplastid protists

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

    Dr Laura Eme

  16. A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle

    Article • Current Biology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  17. 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

  18. Archaea

    Article • Current Biology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  19. 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

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

    Article • Current Biology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

  21. 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

  22. Microbial Diversity: A Bonanza of Phyla

    Article • Current Biology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Laura Eme

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

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Laura Eme

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2009, PLOS

    Dr Laura Eme