Interested in Asgard archaea? @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and I wrote a small blog post on our most recent paper about these fascinating group of prokaryotes and their genome dynamics: go.nature.com/4uPLY5W
Asgard archaea have emerged as key organisms to understand eukaryogenesis. Among their many fascinating features is their atypically large genomes. Here, we dive deep into Asgard genome evolution to u...