Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

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Authors: Laura Eme, Daniel Tamarit, Eva Cáceres, Courtney W. Stairs, Valerie De Anda, Max Emil Schön, Kiley W. Seitz, Nina Dombrowski, William H. Lewis, Félix Homa, Jimmy H. W. Saw, Jonathan Lombard
+13 more Takuro Nunoura, Wen-Jun Li, Zheng‐Shuang Hua, Lin-Xing Chen, Jillian F. Banfield, Emily St. John, Anna‐Louise Reysenbach, Matthew Stott, Andreas Schramm, Kasper Urup Kjeldsen, Andreas Teske, Brett J. Baker, Thijs J. G. Ettema
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Abstract

Our manuscript included a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary relationship between eukaryotes and Asgard archaea, showing that eukaryotes likely emerged from a bona fide Asgard archaeal ancestor. Our results suggested that eukaryotes and the heimdallarchaeial order Hodarchaeales form a monophyletic group. A set of 57 phylogenetic markers (NM57) was central to reach these conclusions. After the publication of our study, we noticed that three of these markers were partially redundant, as they belong to paralogous families. We have therefore reduced this dataset to 54 non-redundant markers (NM54; we removed markers M127, M028, and MA54) and used the same methodology to re-run all phylogenomic analyses presented in the paper.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Protist diversity and phylogeny Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Origins and Evolution of Life

Publication details

Journal / source
Nature
Volume
651
Issue
8104
Pages
E1–E1
Publication date
11 February 2026
Language
EN