The impact of history on our perception of evolutionary events: Endosymbiosis and the origin of eukaryotic complexity

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLASTID; SYMBIOSIS;

EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; PLASTIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84893336682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016196     Document Type: Article

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