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Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis (2015)
Journal Article
Akanni, W. A., Siu-Ting, K., Creevey, C. J., McInerney, J. O., Wilkinson, M., Foster, P. G., & Pisani, D. (2015). Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 370(1678), Article 20140337. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0337

© 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The origin of the eukaryotic cell is considered one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. Current evidence strongly supports a scenario of eukaryotic or... Read More about Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis.

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes (2015)
Journal Article
Ku, C., Nelson-Sathi, S., Roettger, M., Sousa, F. L., Lockhart, P. J., Bryant, D., …Martin, W. F. (2015). Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes. Nature, 524(7566), 427–432. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14963

Chloroplasts arose from cyanobacteria, mitochondria arose from proteobacteria. Both organelles have conserved their prokaryotic biochemistry, but their genomes are reduced, and most organelle proteins are encoded in the nucleus. Endosymbiotic theory... Read More about Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes.