Origin and diversification of eukaryotes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 411-427

  Katz, Laura A ^a,b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

cytoskeleton; eukaryotic diversity; mitochondria; nucleus; protists; tree of life

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALVEOLATA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLADISTICS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA CONTENT; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EXCAVATA; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HISTORY; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPISTHOKONTA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZARIA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAMENOPILA;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTISTA;

EID: 84872227600     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-090110-102808     Document Type: Article

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