Nature Reviews Microbiology 8, 743-752 (October 2010)
doi:10.1038/nrmicro2426
OPINION:
The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse?
Simonetta Gribaldo1, Anthony M. Poole3, Vincent Daubin4, Patrick Forterre1,2 & Céline Brochier-Armanet5
Author affiliations
Simonetta Gribaldo and Patrick Forterre are at the Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Department of Microbiology, 28 rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France.
Email: simonetta.gribaldo@pasteur.fr
Patrick Forterre is also at Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Bât 409, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
Email: forterre@pasteur.fr
Anthony M. Poole is at the Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden, and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Email: anthony.poole@canterbury.ac.nz
Vincent Daubin is at the Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
Email: daubin@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr
Céline Brochier-Armanet is at the Laboratoire de Chimie Bacterienne, CNRS UPR9043, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille, France, and the Université de Provence, 3 place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France.
Email: celine.brochier@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr
Published online 16 September 2010
The Three Domains: UCMP-Berkeley
The origin of eukaryotes and their evolutionary relationship with the Archaea is a major biological question and the subject of intense debate. In the context of the classical view of the universal tree of life, the Archaea and the Eukarya have a common ancestor, the nature of which remains undetermined. Alternative views propose instead that the Eukarya evolved directly from a bona fide archaeal lineage. Several recent large-scale phylogenomic studies using an array of approaches are divided in supporting either one or the other scenario, despite analysing largely overlapping data sets of universal genes. We examine the reasons for such a lack of consensus and consider how alternative approaches may enable progress in answering this fascinating and as-yet-unresolved question.
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