A multilevel approach to address the role of Archaeal Symbionts in the Evolution of Life

Project Information

ASymbEL

Grant agreement ID: 947317

DOI

10.3030/947317

EC signature date 17 August 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 869 946,00

EU contribution

€ 1 869 946,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Uncovering the hidden world of nanosized archaea

Author(s): Anja Spang
Published in: Nature Reviews Microbiology, Issue 21, 2023, Page(s) 638-638, ISSN 1740-1526
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41579-023-00912-3

Is an archaeon the ancestor of eukaryotes?

Author(s): Spang, Anja
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, 2023, ISSN 1462-2920
Publisher: Applied Microbiology International and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16323

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Phylogenetic reconciliation: making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and evolution

Author(s): Tom A Williams, Adrian A Davin, Lénárd L Szánthó, Alexandros Stamatakis, Noah A Wahl, Ben J Woodcroft, Rochelle M Soo, Laura Eme, Paul O Sheridan, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, Anja Spang, Philip Hugenholtz, Gergely J Szöllősi
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae129

ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life

Author(s): Tara A. Mahendrarajah, Edmund R. R. Moody, Dominik Schrempf, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Nina Dombrowski, Adrián A. Davín, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Tom A. Williams, Anja Spang
Published in: Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.11.536006

Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea

Author(s): Chris Greening, Princess R. Cabotaje, Luis E. Valentin Alvarado, Pok Man Leung, Henrik Land, Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Moritz Senger, Max A. Klamke, Michael Milton, Rachael Lappan, Susan Mullen, Jacob West-Roberts, Jie Mao, Jiangning Song, Marie Schoelmerich, Courtney W. Stairs, Christa Schleper, Rhys Grinter, Anja Spang, Jillian F. Banfield, Gustav Berggren
Published in: Cell, Issue 187, 2024, Page(s) 3357-3372.e19, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.032

Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host

Author(s): Su Ding, Joshua N. Hamm, Nicole J. Bale, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Anja Spang
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47750-2

On distinguishing between canonical tRNA genes and tRNA gene fragments in prokaryotes

Author(s): Peter T S van der Gulik, Martijn Egas, Ken Kraaijeveld, Nina Dombrowski, Astrid T Groot, Anja Spang, Wouter D Hoff, Jenna Gallie
Published in: RNA Biology, 2023, ISSN 1555-8584
Publisher: Abingdon UK: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2023.2172370

The importance of biofilm formation for cultivation of a Micrarchaeon and its interactions with its Thermoplasmatales host

Author(s): Krause S, Gfrerer S, von Kügelgen A, Reuse C, Dombrowski N, Villanueva L, Bunk B, Spröer C, Neu TR, Kuhlicke U, Schmidt-Hohagen K, Hiller K, Bharat TAM, Rachel R, Spang A, Gescher J.
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29263-y

The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont

Author(s): Joshua N. Hamm, Yan Liao, Andriko von Kügelgen, Nina Dombrowski, Evan Landers, Christopher Brownlee, Emma M. V. Johansson, Renee M. Whan, Matthew A. B. Baker, Buzz Baum, Tanmay A. M. Bharat, Iain G. Duggin, Anja Spang, Ricardo Cavicchioli
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49962-y

Evolving Perspective on the Origin and Diversification of Cellular Life and the Virosphere

Author(s): Spang A, Mahendrarajah TA, Offre P, Stairs CW.
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac034

An estimate of the deepest branches of the tree of life from ancient vertically evolving genes

Author(s): Edmund RR Moody; Tara A Mahendrarajah; Nina Dombrowski; James W Clark; Celine Petitjean; Pierre Offre; Gergely J Szöllősi; Anja Spang; Tom A Williams
Published in: Elife, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.66695

Phylogenomic analyses reveal that Panguiarchaeum is a clade of genome-reduced Asgard archaea within the Njordarchaeia

Author(s): Wen-Cong Huang, Maraike Probst, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Lénárd L Szánthó, Gergely J Szöllősi, Thijs J G Ettema, Christian Rinke, Tom A Williams, Anja Spang
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf201

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation

Author(s): Adrián A. Davín, Ben J. Woodcroft, Rochelle M. Soo, Benoit Morel, Ranjani Murali, Dominik Schrempf, James W. Clark, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Bastien Boussau, Edmund R. R. Moody, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Etienne Richy, Davide Pisani, James Hemp, Woodward W. Fischer, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Anja Spang, Philip Hugenholtz, Tom A. Williams, Gergely J. Szöllősi
Published in: Science, Issue 388, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adp1853

On the origin of the nucleus: a hypothesis

Author(s): Buzz Baum, Anja Spang
Published in: Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Issue 87, 2024, ISSN 1092-2172
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00186-21

Parameter Estimation and Species Tree Rooting Using ALE and GeneRax

Author(s): Tom A Williams, Adrián A Davín, Benoit Morel, Lénárd L Szánthó, Anja Spang, Alexandros Stamatakis, Philip Hugenholtz, Gergely J Szöllősi
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad134

Chimeric origins and dynamic evolution of central carbon metabolism in eukaryotes

Author(s): Carlos Santana-Molina, Tom A. Williams, Berend Snel, Anja Spang
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 613-627, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02648-0

DPANN Archaea and CPR Bacteria: insights into early cellular evolution?

Author(s): Tara A. Mahendrarajah, Anja Spang
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 380, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0096

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

Author(s): Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara A. Mahendrarajah, James W. Clark, Holly C. Betts, Nina Dombrowski, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Richard A. Boyle, Stuart Daines, Xi Chen, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Graham A. Shields, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip C. J. Donoghue
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1654-1666, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02461-1