Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17252-17255

  Cotton, James A ^a,b,c   McInerney, James O ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Eukaryote origin; Gene essentiality; Protein interaction network

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHIMERA; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78049294169     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000265107     Document Type: Article

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