A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08709-5The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemblages.

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A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08709-5The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemblages.