The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis: A key role for viruses in the emergence of eukaryotes from a prokaryotic world environment

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1178, Issue , 2009, Pages 91-105

  Bell, Philip John Livingstone ^a  

^a Unit E2   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Cellular design; Eukaryote; Linear chromosomes; Meiosis; Mimivirus; Mitosis; Origin of meiosis; Origin of mitosis; Origin of sex; Origin of the nucleus; Sex; Tripartite consortium; Viral eukaryogenesis; Virus

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL WALL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; DAUGHTER CELL; DNA VIRUS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOSIS; VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; MIMIVIRUS; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 70350449675     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04994.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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