Myosin repertoire expansion coincides with eukaryotic diversification in the Mesoproterozoic era

Abstract Background The last eukaryotic common ancestor already had an amazingly complex cell possessing genomic and cellular features such as spliceosomal introns, mitochondria, cilia-dependent motility, and a cytoskeleton together with several intracellular transport systems. In contrast to the mi...

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Main Authors: Martin Kollmar, Stefanie Mühlhausen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1056-2