Reconstructing/deconstructing the earliest eukaryotes: How comparative genomics can help

被引:90
作者
Dacks, JB [1 ]
Doolittle, WF [1 ]
机构
[1] Dalhousie Univ, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Canadian Inst Adv Res, Program Evolutionary Biol, Halifax, NS, Canada
基金
加拿大健康研究院;
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D O I
10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00584-0
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We could reconstruct the evolution of eukaryote-specific molecular and cellular machinery if some living eukaryotes retained primitive cellular structures and we knew which eukaryotes these were. It's not clear that either is the case, but the expanding protist genomic, database could help us in several ways.
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页码:419 / 425
页数:7
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