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