Kelsey Williamson1, Laura Eme2,3,4, Hector Baños2,5,6

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute for Comparative Genomics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. k.williamson@dal.ca.

Nature
|March 13, 2025
PubMed
概括

代表最后一个真核生物共同祖先 (LECA) 的真核生命树根现在正好位于Opimoda+和Diphoda+组合之间. 这一发现阐明了复杂的真核细胞特征的早期演变.

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