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Archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: not so elusive any more

The origin of eukaryotes is one of the hardest problems in evolutionary biology and sometimes raises the ominous specter of irreducible complexity. Reconstruction of the gene repertoire of the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) has revealed a highly complex organism with a variety of advanced fe...

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Autor principal: Koonin, Eugene V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26437773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0194-5