Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life


Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life

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NEWS 09 August 2019 Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life ‘Lokiarchaea’, previously known only from DNA, is isolated and grown in culture. By


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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Biologists have for the first time captured and grown an elusive type of microbe that is similar to those that might


have given rise to all complex life on Earth.

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Nature 572, 294 (2019)


doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02430-w


References Imachi, H. et al. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/726976 (2019).


Spang, A. et al. Nature 521, 173–179 (2015).


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