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Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes
Anja Spang et al. PLoS Genet. 2018.
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This work is supported by grants of the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 310039-PUZZLE_CELL), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF-FFL5), and the Swedish Research Council (VR grant 2015–04959), awarded to TJGE. LE is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 704263. JL is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers from the Wenner-Gren Foundations in Stockholm (UPD2016-0072). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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