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Early evolution without a tree of life.
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- Should Networks Supplant Tree Building?Microorganisms · 2020Review
- Subsumed complexity: abiogenesis as a by-product of complex energy transduction.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2017Article
- Reconstruction of LGT networks from tri-LGT-nets.Journal of mathematical biology · 2017Article
- CytochromeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Horizontal gene transfer: essentiality and evolvability in prokaryotes, and roles in evolutionary transitions.F1000Research · 2016Review
- Archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: not so elusive any more.BMC biology · 2015Article
- Which Phylogenetic Networks are Merely Trees with Additional Arcs?Systematic biology · 2015Article
- Evolution of Enzyme Kinetic Mechanisms.Journal of molecular evolution · 2015Review
- The unseen world: reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) 'Concerning little animals'.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Lateral gene transfer and gene duplication played a key role in the evolution of Mastigamoeba balamuthi hydrogenosomes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2015Article
- Can paternal leakage maintain sexually antagonistic polymorphism in the cytoplasm?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- A reconstruction problem for a class of phylogenetic networks with lateral gene transfers.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2015Article
- The dynamic nature of genomes across the tree of life.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: the weak-link model.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2013Article
- Evolution of microbes and viruses: a paradigm shift in evolutionary biology?Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2012Review
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Abstract
Life is a chemical reaction. Three major transitions in early evolution are considered without recourse to a tree of life. The origin of prokaryotes required a steady supply of energy and electrons, probably in the form of molecular hydrogen stemming from serpentinization. Microbial genome evolution is not a treelike process because of lateral gene transfer and the endosymbiotic origins of organelles. The lack of true intermediates in the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition has a bioenergetic cause.
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