An open access review of the Asgard Archaea

[BillTre]

Asgard archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?​

The Ascard Archaea are now widely hypothesized to have fused with alphaproteobacteria (that became mitochondria) to form the eukaryotes (cells with nuclei and lots of internal membrane systems that form animals, plants and fungi).
This review covers a lot of molecular, metabolic, and structural issues.

 

[emitted_echo]

It's really interesting to read more about this because I had a similar hypothesis a few years back. As I head into Uni I plan on seeing if I can get a professor to sponsor me so I can use a modified Miller-Urey setup alongside different strains of Asgard Archaea and either alphaproteobacteria or cyanobacteria to attempt induced-endosymbiosis in a laboratory setting.

 

[BillTre]

It's really interesting to read more about this because I had a similar hypothesis a few years back. As I head into Uni I plan on seeing if I can get a professor to sponsor me so I can use a modified Miller-Urey setup alongside different strains of Asgard Archaea and either alphaproteobacteria or cyanobacteria to attempt induced-endosymbiosis in a laboratory setting.

Any experiment involving these Asgard guys would take a long time since they divide very slowly. There are probably special culturing techniques only a few labs would be doing regularly. It would be best to go to a lab that is already doing this.