Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges
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- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 440 (7084), 623-630
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04546
Abstract
The idea that some eukaryotes primitively lacked mitochondria and were true intermediates in the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition was an exciting prospect. It spawned major advances in understanding anaerobic and parasitic eukaryotes and those with previously overlooked mitochondria. But the evolutionary gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is now deeper, and the nature of the host that acquired the mitochondrion more obscure, than ever before.Keywords
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