Papers

Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria 

Joran Martijn, Julian Vosseberg, Lionel Guy, Pierre Offre & Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2018. Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0059-5

Vast diversity of prokaryotic virus genomes encoding double jelly-roll major capsid proteins uncovered by genomic and metagenomic sequence analysis 

Natalya Yutin, Disa Bäckström, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Mart Krupovic and Eugene V. Koonin. 2018. Virology Journal 15, doi: 10.1186/s12985-018-0974-y

RNA Sequencing of Stentor Cell Fragments Reveals Transcriptional Changes during Cellular Regeneration 

Henning Onsbring, Mahwash Jamy, Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2018. Current Biology 28, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.055

Genomes from uncultivated prokaryotes: a comparison of metagenome-assembled and single-amplified genomes 

Johannes Alneberg, Christofer M. G. Karlsson, Anna-Maria Divne, Claudia Bergin, Felix Homa, Markus V. Lindh, Luisa W. Hugerth, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Stefan Bertilsson, Anders F. Andersson, Jarone Pinhassi. 2017. bioRxiv 219295, doi: 10.1101/219295

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes 

Eme, L., Spang, A., Lombard, J., Stairs, C.W., and Ettema, T.J.G. 2017. Nature Reviews Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.133

Functional reconstruction of a eukaryotic-like E1/E2/(RING) E3 ubiquitylation cascade from an uncultured archaeon 

Rory Hennell James, Eva F. Caceres, Alex Escasinas, Haya Alhasan, Julie A. Howard, Michael J. Deery, Thijs J. G. Ettema & Nicholas P. Robinson. 2017. Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01162-7

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea 

Robert M Bowers, Nikos C Kyrpides, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Miranda Harmon-Smith, Devin Doud, T B K Reddy, Frederik Schulz, Jessica Jarett, Adam R Rivers, Emiley A Eloe-Fadrosh, Susannah G Tringe, Natalia N Ivanova, Alex Copeland, Alicia Clum, Eric D Becraft, Rex R Malmstrom, Bruce Birren, Mircea Podar, Peer Bork, George M Weinstock, George M Garrity, Jeremy A Dodsworth, Shibu Yooseph, Granger Sutton, Frank O Glöckner, Jack A Gilbert, William C Nelson, Steven J Hallam, Sean P Jungbluth, Thijs J G Ettema, Scott Tighe, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis, Wen-Tso Liu, Brett J Baker, Thomas Rattei, Jonathan A Eisen, Brian Hedlund, Katherine D McMahon, Noah Fierer, Rob Knight, Rob Finn, Guy Cochrane, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Gene W Tyson, Christian Rinke, The Genome Standards Consortium, Alla Lapidus, Folker Meyer, Pelin Yilmaz, Donovan H Parks, A M Eren, Lynn Schriml, Jillian F Banfield, Philip Hugenholtz & Tanja Woyke. 2017. Nature Biotechnology: doi:10.1038/nbt.3893

Genomic exploration of the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the archaeal domain of life 

Anja Spang, Eva F. Caceres, Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2017. Science, doi: 10.1126/science.aaf3883

Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life 

Tom A. Williams, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Peter G. Foster, Sarah E. Heaps, Bastien Boussau, Thijs J. G. Ettema, and T. Martin Embley. 2017. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618463114

Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment 

Piotr Starnawski, Thomas Bataillon, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Lara M. Jochum, Lars Schreiber, Xihan Chena, Mark A. Lever, Martin F. Polz, Bo B. Jørgensen, Andreas Schramm and Kasper U. Kjeldsen. 2017. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614190114

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity 

Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Eva F. Caceres, Jimmy H. Saw, Disa Bäckström, Lina Juzokaite, Emmelien Vancaester, Kiley W. Seitz, Karthik Anantharaman, Piotr Starnawski, Kasper U. Kjeldsen, Matthew B. Stott, Takuro Nunoura, Jillian F. Banfield, Andreas Schramm, Brett J. Baker, Anja Spang & Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2017. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature21031 

Picodroplet partitioned whole genome amplification of low biomass samples preserves genomic diversity for metagenomic analysis 

Maria Hammond, Felix Homa, Andersson-Svahn, Thijs J. G. Ettema and Haakan N. Joensson. 2016. Microbiome, doi: 10.1186/s40168-016-0197-7 

Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea 

Brett J. Baker, Jimmy H. Saw, Anders E. Lind, Cassandre Sara Lazar, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Andreas P. Teske & Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2016. Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.2

Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes 

Jimmy H. Saw, Anja Spang, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Lina Juzokaite, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Dan R. Colman, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Brian P. Hedlund, Lionel Guy & Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2015. Philosophical Transactions B, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0328

A Rickettsiales symbiont of amoebae with ancient features 

Frederik Schulz, Joran Martijn, Florian Wascher, Ilias Lagkouvardos, Rok Kostanjšek, Thijs J. G. Ettema & Matthias Horn. 2015. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12881

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes 

Anja Spang, Jimmy H. Saw, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Joran Martijn, Anders E. Lind,
Roel van Eijk, Christa Schleper, Lionel Guy & Thijs J. G. Ettema. 2015. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature14447

Single-cell genomics of a rare environmental alphaproteobacterium provides unique insights into Rickettsiaceae evolution 

Joran Martijn, Frederik Schulz, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Johan Viklund, Ramunas Stepanauskas,
Siv G E Andersson, Matthias Horn, Lionel Guy and Thijs J G Ettema. 2015. The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.46

The archaeal legacy of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic perspective 

Lionel Guy, Jimmy H Saw, Thijs JG Ettema. 2014. Perspectives in Biology, doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016022

Close encounters of the Third Domain: the emerging genomic view of archaeal diversity and evolution 

Anja Spang, Joran Martijn, Anders E Lind, Jimmy H Saw, Lionel Guy and Thijs JG Ettema. 2013. Archaea: 2013, doi: 10.1155/2013/202358

From archaeon to eukaryote: the evolutionary dark ages of the eukaryotic cell 

Joran Martijn & Thijs JG Ettema. 2013. Biochemical Society Transactions: 41, doi: 10.1042/BST20120292

Alphaproteobacterium HIMB59 is not a member of the Oceanic SAR11 Clade 

Johan Viklund, Joran Martijn, Thijs JG Ettema and Siv GE Andersson. 2013. PLoS ONE: 8, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078858

Independent genome reduction and phylogenetic reclassification of the oceanic SAR11 clade 

Johan Viklund, Thijs JG Ettema and Siv GE Andersson. 2012. Molecular Biology and Evolution: 29, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr203

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes 

Lionel Guy and Thijs JG Ettema. 2011. Trends in Microbiology: 19, doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.09.002

FtsZ-less cell division in archaea and bacteria 

Rolf Bernander and Thijs JG Ettema. 2011. Current Opinion in Microbiology: 13, doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.10.005

Archaeal origin of the actin cytoskeleton: implications for eukaryogenesis 

Rolf Bernander, Anders E Lind and Thijs JG Ettema. 2011. Comm Integr Biol: 4, doi: 10.4161/cib.4.6.16974

Cell division and the ESCRT complex: A surprise from the Archaea 

Thijs JG Ettema and Rolf Bernander. 2009. Comm Integr Biol: 2 (2): p 86-8

A unique cell division machinery in the Archaea 

Ann-Christin Lindås, Erik A. Karlsson, Maria T. Lindgren, Thijs J. G. Ettema, and Rolf Bernander. 2008. PNAS: 105, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0809467105