The ring of life provides evidence for a genome fusion origin of eukaryotes

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7005, 2004, Pages 152-155

  Rivera, Maria C ^a   Lake, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EUKARYOTES; GENE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTES;

GENES;

BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 4544313053     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02848     Document Type: Article

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