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How oxygen gave rise to eukaryotic sex

How did full meiotic eukaryotic sex evolve and what was the immediate advantage allowing it to develop? We propose that the crucial determinant can be found in internal reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation at the start of eukaryotic evolution approximately 2 × 10(9) years ago. The large amount of...

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Autores principales: Hörandl, Elvira, Speijer, Dave
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5829205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29436502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2706

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