One of biggest mysteries in biology: how did complex eukaryotic cells evolve from simple microbes? ~1.8 billion years ago, an archaeal cell likely merged with a bacterium to form the first eukaryotic cell, but can we ever find direct evidence of this transformative event? 🦠 🚶♂️
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Beautiful work Deb! Check out these structures? Biofilms are very interesting. 🧶🧬
Really excited about this work, you can read more here: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Wonderful collaboration with Brendan Burns, Iain Duggin and Katharine Michie labs.
We analysed microbial mats from stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia – environments that resemble early Earth and act like ~living fossils or time capsules of evolutionary history. These environments host diverse microbial communities akin to those that thrived in ancient times.🔬❄️🧬 🦠