The falsifiability of the models for the origin of eukaryotes

Current Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 367-390

  Vesteg, Matej ^a   Krajčovič, Juraj ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Last universal common ancestor (LUCA); Lipid heterochirality; Mitochondria; Progenote; Sexual reproduction; Splicing

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENOTE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPLICEOSOME; TRANS SPLICING;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 82455208960     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: 14320983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-011-0357-z     Document Type: Review

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