Periodic Reporting for period 4 - TACKLE (TACK Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution: Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition)
Reporting period: 2021-02-01 to 2022-07-31
To address these questions it was a major objective of this project to cultivate and study organisms of two crucial lineages: Lokiarchaea of the new phylum Asgardarchaeota that are the closest known living relatives to Eukaryotes and thermophilic Thaumarchaeota from hot springs whose descendants have radiated into moderate environments on Earth.
Our work was published in 15 peer-reviewed publications and presented on 3 conferences. At least 6 further publications are currently in preparation and more are expected to come.