The prokaryote-eukaryote dichotomy: Meanings and mythology

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 292-305

  Sapp, Jan ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; RNA 16S;

AMOEBA; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLUE GREEN ALGA; DAPHNIA; DROSOPHILA; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; LIFE HISTORY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT AND FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOON; PSEUDOMONAS; REGNUM; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TAXONOMIC RANK;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 20544436001     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.69.2.292-305.2005     Document Type: Review

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