The dispersed archaeal eukaryome and the complex archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Yutin, Natalya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; KORARCHAEOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; VASCONCELLEA CANDICANS;

UBIQUITIN;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; ECHOGRAPHY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTA; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 84905513696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016188     Document Type: Article

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