Metabolic bacterial genes and the construction of high-level composite lineages of life

Understanding how major organismal lineages originated is fundamental for understanding processes by which life evolved. Major evolutionary transitions, like eukaryogenesis, merging genetic material from distantly related organisms, are rare events, hence difficult ones to explain causally. If most...

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Autores principales: Méheust, Raphaël, Lopez, Philippe, Bapteste, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science Publishers 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25601290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.01.001
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description Understanding how major organismal lineages originated is fundamental for understanding processes by which life evolved. Major evolutionary transitions, like eukaryogenesis, merging genetic material from distantly related organisms, are rare events, hence difficult ones to explain causally. If most archaeal lineages emerged after massive acquisitions of bacterial genes, a rule however arises: metabolic bacterial genes contributed to all major evolutionary transitions.
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spelling pubmed-43592772015-03-31 Metabolic bacterial genes and the construction of high-level composite lineages of life Méheust, Raphaël Lopez, Philippe Bapteste, Eric Trends Ecol Evol Spotlight Understanding how major organismal lineages originated is fundamental for understanding processes by which life evolved. Major evolutionary transitions, like eukaryogenesis, merging genetic material from distantly related organisms, are rare events, hence difficult ones to explain causally. If most archaeal lineages emerged after massive acquisitions of bacterial genes, a rule however arises: metabolic bacterial genes contributed to all major evolutionary transitions. Elsevier Science Publishers 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4359277/ /pubmed/25601290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.01.001 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Metabolic bacterial genes and the construction of high-level composite lineages of life
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25601290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.01.001
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