The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 449-455

  McInerney, James O ^a   O'Connell, Mary J ^b   Pisani, Davide ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEON; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENERGY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY; TAXONOMY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 84901203656     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3271     Document Type: Review

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