LECA tree (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

LECA tree

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A University of Texas at Austin-led team used proteomics data from 31 eukaryote species, including humans, spanning ~1.8 billion years of evolution to reconstruct the protein interactome of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA).

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Illustration credit: Angel Syrett/Elinor Marcotte/University of Texas at Austin/SwissBioPics.

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