ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2014
The relative ages of eukaryotes and akaryotes.
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- A Proterozoic microbial origin of extant cyanide-hydrolyzing enzyme diversity.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- The deep(er) roots of Eukaryotes and Akaryotes.F1000Research · 2020Article
- Evolution of the Drosophila melanogaster Chromatin Landscape and Its Associated Proteins.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.PLoS genetics · 2017Article
- Arguments Reinforcing the Three-Domain View of Diversified Cellular Life.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2016Review
- Early Microbial Evolution: The Age of Anaerobes.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
- Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Eukaryotes first: how could that be?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Epigenetics, Darwin, and Lamarck.Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
- The universal tree of life: an update.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Review
- Cooperation and selfishness both occur during molecular evolution.Biology direct · 2014Review
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Abstract
The Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor (LECA) appears to have the genetics required for meiosis, mitosis, nucleus and nuclear substructures, an exon/intron gene structure, spliceosomes, many centres of DNA replication, etc. (and including mitochondria). Most of these features are not generally explained by models for the origin of the Eukaryotic cell based on the fusion of an Archeon and a Bacterium. We find that the term 'prokaryote' is ambiguous and the non-phylogenetic term akaryote should be used in its place because we do not yet know the direction of evolution between eukaryotes and akaryotes. We use the term 'protoeukaryote' for the hypothetical stem group ancestral eukaryote that took up a bacterium as an endosymbiont that formed the mitochondrion. It is easier to make detailed models with a eukaryote to an akaryote transition, rather than vice versa. So we really are at a phylogenetic impasse in not being confident about the direction of change between eukaryotes and akaryotes.
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