Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

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 …

Mitochondria are best known for their role in the generation of ATP by aerobic respiration.
Yet, research in the past half century has shown that they perform a much larger suite of …

Mitochondria are essential in most eukaryotes and are involved in numerous biological
functions including ATP production, cofactor biosyntheses, apoptosis, lipid synthesis, and …

Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the
field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and …

Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside
from these organismal interactions, bacteria have also been important sources of new …

Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) proteins are present in virtually all living organisms and are
involved in numerous cellular processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, metabolic …

Mitochondria accumulate copper in their matrix for the eventual maturation of the
cuproenzymes cytochrome c oxidase and superoxide dismutase. Transport into the matrix is …

The biogenesis of iron–sulfur (Fe/S) proteins in eukaryotes is a multistage,
multicompartment process that is essential for a broad range of cellular functions, including …

Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …