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Eukaryogenesis From FECA to LECA: Radical Steps Along the Way. [PDF]
BioessaysHow did the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) population evolve? Recent evidence shows an Asgard archaeon‐like organism acquiring a bacterium, the future mitochondrion, going from symbiosis to endosymbiosis. I postulate that almost all salient LECA characteristics could have resulted from the ensuing enhanced ATP generation and internal reactive ...
Speijer D.
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The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology. [PDF]
J Eukaryot MicrobiolABSTRACT Blastocystis spp., one of the most prevalent microeukaryotes in the human gut, has long puzzled researchers with its ambiguous role in health and disease. Decades‐old microscopy studies reported bacterial‐ and viral‐like particles within Blastocystis spp. cells, but these findings have been mainly overlooked.
Shaw D, Gentekaki E, Tsaousis AD.
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Current Biology, 2012 The phenomenon of endosymbiosis, or one organism living within another, has deeply impacted the evolution of life and continues to shape the ecology of countless species. Traditionally, biologists have viewed evolution as a largely bifurcating pattern, reflecting mutations and other changes in existing genetic information and the occasional speciation ...
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Evolutionary cell biology: Functional insight from “Endless forms most beautiful” [PDF]
, 2015 In animal and fungal model organisms, the complexities of cell biology have been analyzed in exquisite detail and much is known about how these organisms function at the cellular level.
Dacks, Joel B. +4 more
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Primary endosymbiosis: have cyanobacteria and Chlamydiae ever been roommates?
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014 Eukaryotes acquired the ability to process photosynthesis by engulfing a cyanobacterium and transforming it into a genuine organelle called the plastid. This event, named primary endosymbiosis, occurred once more than a billion years ago, and allowed the
Philippe Deschamps
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Diversity, 2020 The ‘green’ ciliate Paramecium bursaria lives in mutualistic symbiosis with green algae belonging to the species Chlorella variabilis or Micractinium conductrix. We analysed the diversity of algal endosymbionts and their P. bursaria hosts in nine strains
Felicitas E. Flemming +3 more
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Relevance of sex-differenced analyses in bioenergetics and nutritional studies
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Sex-biased analyses still remain as one of the biggest limitations to obtain universal conclusions. In biomedicine, the majority of experimental analyses and a significant amount of patient-derived cohort studies exclusively included males.
Glòria Garrabou +7 more
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tRNA functional signatures classify plastids as late-branching cyanobacteria. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundEukaryotes acquired the trait of oxygenic photosynthesis through endosymbiosis of the cyanobacterial progenitor of plastid organelles. Despite recent advances in the phylogenomics of Cyanobacteria, the phylogenetic root of plastids remains ...
Amrine, Katherine Ch +3 more
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The Basic Genetic Toolkit to Move in with your Photosynthetic Partner
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 The origin of photosynthetic organelles via endosymbiosis more than 1 Gya ago was a major detonator of eukaryotic diversification. The evolution of a stable endosymbiotic relationship between eukaryotic cells and photosynthetic cyanobacteria involved ...
Adrian eReyes-Prieto
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Surfing the vegetal pole in a small population: extracellular vertical transmission of an 'intracellular' deep-sea clam symbiont [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Symbiont transmission is a key event for understanding the processes underlying symbiotic associations and their evolution. However, our understanding of the mechanisms of symbiont transmission remains still fragmentary.
Tetsuro Ikuta +13 more
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