Brett J. Baker

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• Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

  UNC Libraries · 2026-06-18

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

  UNC Libraries · 2026-06-18

• Mapping environmental microbiomes across an entire country

  Trends in Microbiology · 2026-03-18

• The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026-03-13

• Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling

  Nature Microbiology · 2026-03-05 · 3 citations

• Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor

  Nature · 2026-02-18 · 11 citations

• Asgard archaeal origin of microtubules

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-02-16 · 1 citations

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

  Nature · 2026-02-11

• Evolution and diversity of oxidoreductases involved in redox balance and energy conservation

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2026-02-03

• Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (Nature, (2023), 618, 7967, (992-999), 10.1038/s41586-023-06186-2)

  Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) · 2026-01-01

• Microcompartments in archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesisPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-09

• Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-11-05

• A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-09-26 · 13 citations

• Correction to: Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

  UNC Libraries · 2025-05-22

• Archaeal lineages related to eukaryotes encode functional diterpenoid cyclasesPreprint

  Research Square · 2025-02-27 · 1 citations

• Archaeal lineages related to eukaryotes encode functional diterpenoid cyclasesPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-02-08 · 3 citations

• Unravelling viral ecology and evolution over 20 years in a freshwater lake

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-01-03 · 31 citations

• Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-01-03 · 35 citations

• Metabolic capacity is maintained despite shifts in microbial diversity in estuary sediments

  ISME Communications · 2025-01-01 · 4 citations

• Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms

  The ISME Journal · 2025-01-01 · 7 citations