Did group II intron proliferation in an endosymbiont-bearing archaeon create eukaryotes?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Martin & Koonin recently proposed that the eukaryote nucleus evolved as a quality control mechanism to prevent ribosome readthrough into introns. In their scenario, the bacterial ancestor of mitochondria was resident in an archaeal cell, and group II introns...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Biology Direct |
| Online Access: | http://www.biology-direct.com/content/1/1/36 |