Archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: Not so elusive any more

BMC Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENOME; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84946478324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0194-5     Document Type: Article

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