Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes

• Anja Spang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Spang, Laura Eme

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, and Utrecht University, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Laura Eme ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Spang, Laura Eme

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Jimmy H. Saw,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Eva F. Caceres,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Jonathan Lombard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Lionel Guy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Thijs J. G. Ettema

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thijs.ettema@icm.uu.se

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6898-6377

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