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The Human Genome Retains Relics of Its Prokaryotic Ancestry: Human Genes of Archaebacterial and Eubacterial Origin Exhibit Remarkable Differences

Eukaryotes are generally thought to stem from a fusion event involving an archaebacterium and a eubacterium. As a result of this event, contemporaneous eukaryotic genomes are chimeras of genes inherited from both endosymbiotic partners. These two coexisting gene repertoires have been shown to differ...

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Autores principales: Alvarez-Ponce, David, McInerney, James O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21795752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evr073