Jessica L. E. Wimmer

The metabolic network of the last bacterial common ancestor

Joana C. Xavier, Rebecca E. Gerhards, Jessica L. E. Wimmer et al. · Communications Biology · 2021 · 62 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology +17

Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

Jessica L. E. Wimmer, Joana C. Xavier, Andrey do Nascimento Vieira et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2021 · 61 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Evolutionary Biology +17

Gene Duplications Trace Mitochondria to the Onset of Eukaryote Complexity

Fernando D. K. Tria, Julia Brueckner, Josip Skejo et al. · Genome Biology and Evolution · 2021 · 42 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +15

Pyrophosphate and Irreversibility in Evolution, or why PPi Is Not an Energy Currency and why Nature Chose Triphosphates

Jessica L. E. Wimmer, Karl Kleinermanns, William Martin · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2021 · 35 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +17

The Autotrophic Core: An Ancient Network of 404 Reactions Converts H2, CO2, and NH3 into Amino Acids, Bases, and Cofactors

Jessica L. E. Wimmer, Andrey do Nascimento Vieira, Joana C. Xavier et al. · Microorganisms · 2021 · 33 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Metabolism +14