Vaishnavi Pawar
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Vaishnavi Pawar
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Biology Undergrad at NISER |Aspiring archaeal biologist 🧫| Exploring archaeal genomics, mobile genetic elements, and microbial interactions | fuelled by food, calligraphy and Cats 🐾
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Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis.

tldr; Best guess, ~ 50% of conserved eukaryotic protein families are from from Asgard archaea!

#science #biology #evolution #nature #bioinformatics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature
A survey of the reconstructed gene set of the last eukaryotic common ancestor shows a consistent link between Asgard archaea and the origin of numerous, functionally diverse eukaryotic genes, dem...
www.nature.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM