For 15 years, the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) has been divided into five to eight major
groupings, known as 'supergroups'. However, the tree has been profoundly rearranged …

Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

Background Metagenomics is revolutionizing the study of microorganisms and their
involvement in biological, biomedical, and geochemical processes, allowing us to …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of genetic material across branches of the
tree of life, is well established in prokaryotes and uncontroversial. This is explained in part …

Molecular phylogenetics of microbial eukaryotes has reshaped the tree of life by
establishing broad taxonomic divisions, termed supergroups, that supersede the traditional …

EukProt is a database of published and publicly available predicted protein sets selected to
represent the breadth of eukaryotic diversity, currently including 993 species from all major …

Developing a detailed understanding of how all known forms of life are related to one
another in the tree of life has been a major preoccupation of biology since the idea of tree …

Phylogenomic analyses of hundreds of protein-coding genes aimed at resolving
phylogenetic relationships is now a common practice. However, no software currently exists …

Streptophytes are one of the major groups of the green lineage (Chloroplastida or
Viridiplantae). During one billion years of evolution, streptophytes have radiated into an …

The endosymbiotic origin of plastids from cyanobacteria gave eukaryotes photosynthetic
capabilities and launched the diversification of countless forms of algae. These primary …