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SUBMITTER: Saw JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4571567 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saw Jimmy H JH Spang Anja A Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka Katarzyna K Juzokaite Lina L Dodsworth Jeremy A JA Murugapiran Senthil K SK Colman Dan R DR Takacs-Vesbach Cristina C Hedlund Brian P BP Guy Lionel L Ettema Thijs J G TJ
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20150901 1678
The origin of eukaryotes represents an enigmatic puzzle, which is still lacking a number of essential pieces. Whereas it is currently accepted that the process of eukaryogenesis involved an interplay between a host cell and an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont, we currently lack detailed information regarding the identity and nature of these players. A number of studies have provided increasing support for the emergence of the eukaryotic host cell from within the archaeal domain of life, display ...[more]