Brett Baker
Appearances
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In The Club, We All ... Archaea?
And me, as someone working in the archaeal side of the origin of eukaryotes, I was like, why someone is focusing one in one player that formed the eukaryote and not a second one? I know archaea play a role in this.
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In The Club, We All ... Archaea?
Some researchers in my field wait their whole life for someone to prove their predictions were right. I had to wait less than, I don't know, a couple of weeks.
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In The Club, We All ... Archaea?
They are way bigger in Asgard and eukaryotes than they are in bacteria. So what that means is that they are more prevalent in Asgard and eukaryotes than they are in bacteria. So I was like, OK, if this is coming from a prokaryote, a bacteria or an archaea, it is most likely that they are coming from archaea because it is way more prevalent there.
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In The Club, We All ... Archaea?
I fully believe this is how it happened. But how many times did it happen and it did not work? This is something that is a main question in biology still. And we don't know. So that's the thing that keeps me up at night a little bit.