Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges

T. Martin Embley () and William Martin ()
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T. Martin Embley: University of Newcastle upon
William Martin: University of Düsseldorf

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7084, 623-630

Abstract: Abstract The idea that some eukaryotes primitively lacked mitochondria and were true intermediates in the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition was an exciting prospect. It spawned major advances in understanding anaerobic and parasitic eukaryotes and those with previously overlooked mitochondria. But the evolutionary gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is now deeper, and the nature of the host that acquired the mitochondrion more obscure, than ever before.

Date: 2006
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