Sex and the eukaryotic cell cycle is consistent with a viral ancestry for the eukaryotic nucleus

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 54-63

  Bell, Philip John Livingstone ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

compatibility; Eukaryote evolution; Eukaryotic cell cycle; Lysogeny; Meiosis; Mitosis; Nucleus; Origin of sex; Plasmid partitioning; Viral Eukaryogenesis Theory; Virus

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; DNA; EUKARYOTE; PHYLOGENETICS; SEX ALLOCATION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA VIRUS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; LYSOGENIZATION; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LYSOGENY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; SEX;

ARCHAEA; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33749147412     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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