ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2015
Open Questions on the Origin of Eukaryotes.
Review in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.
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- The Ancestral Mitotic State: Closed Orthomitosis With Intranuclear Spindles in the Syncytial Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Evolution of factors shaping the endoplasmic reticulum.Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) · 2022Article
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- Why sequence all eukaryotes?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Sex in protists: A new perspective on the reproduction mechanisms of trypanosomatids.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite recent progress, the origin of the eukaryotic cell remains enigmatic. It is now known that the last eukaryotic common ancestor was complex and that endosymbiosis played a crucial role in eukaryogenesis at least via the acquisition of the alphaproteobacterial ancestor of mitochondria. However, the nature of the mitochondrial host is controversial, although the recent discovery of an archaeal lineage phylogenetically close to eukaryotes reinforces models proposing archaea-derived hosts. We argue that, in addition to improved phylogenomic analyses with more comprehensive taxon sampling to pinpoint the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes, determining plausible mechanisms and selective forces at the origin of key eukaryotic features, such as the nucleus or the bacterial-like eukaryotic membrane system, is essential to constrain existing models.
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