Symbiosis Between Methanogenic Archaea and δ-Proteobacteria as the Origin of Eukaryotes: The Syntrophic Hypothesis

1998/11/01 by David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, Purificación López-García · 326 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Archaea #Bacteria #Bacterial genome size #Biology #Buchnera #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Horizontal gene transfer #Methanogenesis #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Symbiosis

paper · doi:10.1007/pl00006408

published in Journal of Molecular Evolution 47(5), 517-530 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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