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An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell.

Baum, DA; Baum, B; (2014) An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell. BMC Biology , 12 , Article 76. 10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2. Green open access

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Abstract

Although the origin of the eukaryotic cell has long been recognized as the single most profound change in cellular organization during the evolution of life on earth, this transition remains poorly understood. Models have always assumed that the nucleus and endomembrane system evolved within the cytoplasm of a prokaryotic cell.

Type: Article
Title: An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell.
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2
Additional information: © 2014 Baum and Baum; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords: Biological Evolution, Cell Nucleus, Cell Wall, Eukaryotic Cells, Models, Biological, Phylogeny, Prokaryotic Cells
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Lab for Molecular Cell Bio MRC-UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457085
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