Mind the gaps in cellular evolution

James O. McInerney () and Mary J. O'Connell
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James O. McInerney: School of Biological Sciences, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Mary J. O'Connell: Mary J. O'Connell is in the Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

Nature, 2017, vol. 541, issue 7637, 297-299

Abstract: Eukaryotic cells, with complex features such as membrane-bound nuclei, evolved from prokaryotic cells that lack these components. A newly identified prokaryotic group reveals intermediate steps in eukaryotic-cell evolution. See Article p.353

Date: 2017
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