Birth of the eukaryotes by a set of reactive innovations: New insights force us to relinquish gradual models

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1268-1276

  Speijer, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Archaea; Eukaryotic evolution; FADH2 NADH ratio; Mitochondria; Peroxisomes; ROS; Symbiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEOME; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; EUKARYOTE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEOME; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84947301967     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500107     Document Type: Article

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