Early cell evolution, eukaryotes, anoxia, sulfide, oxygen, fungi first (?), and a tree of genomes revisited

IUBMB Life

Volumn 55, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 193-204

  Martin, William ^a   Rotte, Carmen ^a   Hoffmeister, Meike ^a   Theissen, Ursula ^a   Gelius Dietrich, Gabriel ^a   Ahr, Simone ^a   Henze, Katrin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaerobiosis; Anoxia; Divergence times; Endosymbiosis; Hydrogenosomes; Lateral gene transfer; Mitochondria; Sulfide

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFIDE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; FUNGI, UNCLASSIFIED; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIA; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SULFIDES; SULFUR; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038152799     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1521654031000141231     Document Type: Review

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