Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Nature

Volumn 521, Issue 7551, 2015, Pages 173-179

  Spang, Anja ^a   Saw, Jimmy H ^a   Jørgensen, Steffen L ^b   Zaremba Niedzwiedzka, Katarzyna ^a   Martijn, Joran ^a   Lind, Anders E ^a   Van Eijk, Roel ^a,d   Schleper, Christa ^b,c   Guy, Lionel ^a   Ettema, Thijs J G ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCRT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ACTIN; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; EMERGENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROKARYOTE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; LOKIARCHAEOTA; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLUM; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; ARCTIC; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ARCHAEA; ARCTIC REGIONS; ENDOSOMAL SORTING COMPLEXES REQUIRED FOR TRANSPORT; EUKARYOTA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEOME;

EID: 84929329445     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14447     Document Type: Article

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