Cargando…
Did group II intron proliferation in an endosymbiont-bearing archaeon create eukaryotes?
Martin & Koonin recently proposed that the eukaryote nucleus evolved as a quality control mechanism to prevent ribosome readthrough into introns. In their scenario, the bacterial ancestor of mitochondria was resident in an archaeal cell, and group II introns (carried by the fledgling mitochondri...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2006
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1712230/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17156426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-1-36 |