# Capturing our closest archaeal relatives offers clues to the origin of eukaryotes

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- Published: 2026-10-29T16:00:16+00:00
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A collaborative research team led by Hiroyuki Imachi and Masaru K. Nobu of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Satoshi Nakagawa of Kyoto University has for the first time isolated and cultivated two strains of Heimdallarchaeia, a group of archaea that are among the closest known archaeal relatives of eukaryotes—the organisms that include humans and other animals,

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