ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2015
Eukaryotes first: how could that be?
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- The elements of life: A biocentric tour of the periodic table.Advances in microbial physiology · 2023Article
- The essence of life revisited: how theories can shed light on it.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2022Article
- The Evolution of the Hallmarks of Aging.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Review
- Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria).Protoplasma · 2020Review
- Division of labour in a matrix, rather than phagocytosis or endosymbiosis, as a route for the origin of eukaryotic cells.Biology direct · 2020Article
- The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics.PLoS genetics · 2018Review
- Domain Cell Theory supports the independent evolution of the Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea and the Nuclear Compartment Commonality hypothesis.Open biology · 2017Article
- Convergent evolution as natural experiment: the tape of life reconsidered.Interface focus · 2015Article
- Changing ideas about eukaryotic origins.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
In the half century since the formulation of the prokaryote : eukaryote dichotomy, many authors have proposed that the former evolved from something resembling the latter, in defiance of common (and possibly common sense) views. In such 'eukaryotes first' (EF) scenarios, the last universal common ancestor is imagined to have possessed significantly many of the complex characteristics of contemporary eukaryotes, as relics of an earlier 'progenotic' period or RNA world. Bacteria and Archaea thus must have lost these complex features secondarily, through 'streamlining'. If the canonical three-domain tree in which Archaea and Eukarya are sisters is accepted, EF entails that Bacteria and Archaea are convergently prokaryotic. We ask what this means and how it might be tested.
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