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A discussion of “The Mixotrich’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“A kingdom’s progress: Archezoa and the origin of eukaryotes”: www3.botany.ubc.ca/keeling/PDF/98King.pdf
“The Cauliflower’s Tale”: youtu.be/ZbS9zO8zoWw
“A Mitosome With Distinct Metabolism in the Uncultured Protist Parasite Paramikrocytos canceri (Rhizaria, Ascetosporea)”: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/3/evad022/7039708
“Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria”: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050
“Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of ‘Primitive’ Eukaryotes”: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/23/3/615/1110319
“The Eukaryotic Tree of Life from a Global Phylogenomic Perspective”: cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/5/a016147.full.pdf+html
“Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion”: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/372/1713/20150476/23120/Origin-of-animal-multicellularity-precursors
“An excavate root for the eukaryote tree of life”: science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.ade4973
“Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function”: pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1000265107
“Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes”: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09808-z
“Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis”: cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00987-9
“Mitochondrial genomes revisited: why do different lineages retain different genes?”: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12915-024-01824-1.pdf
“Introns and the origin of nucleus–cytosol compartmentalization”: nature.com/articles/nature04531
“Serial endosymbiosis or singular event at the origin of eukaryotes?”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519317302011
“The emerging view on the origin and early evolution of eukaryotic cells”: nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07677-6
“Intracellular Bacteria in the Blue-Green Alga Pleurocapsa minor”: jstor.org/stable/3225953
“Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface”: nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1916-6
“Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent”: nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201634
“Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history”: nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01733-y
“The Polypifer’s Tale”: youtu.be/sMgtGU3aQEw
“The cellulolytic system of the termite gut”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00253-013-5119-z
“Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont”: academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf178/8238455
A discussion of “The Mixotrich’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“A kingdom’s progress: Archezoa and the origin of eukaryotes”: www3.botany.ubc.ca/keeling/PDF/98King.pdf
“The Cauliflower’s Tale”: youtu.be/ZbS9zO8zoWw
“A Mitosome With Distinct Metabolism in the Uncultured Protist Parasite Paramikrocytos canceri (Rhizaria, Ascetosporea)”: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/3/evad022/7039708
“Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria”: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050
“Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of ‘Primitive’ Eukaryotes”: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/23/3/615/1110319
“The Eukaryotic Tree of Life from a Global Phylogenomic Perspective”: cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/5/a016147.full.pdf+html
“Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion”: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/372/1713/20150476/23120/Origin-of-animal-multicellularity-precursors
“An excavate root for the eukaryote tree of life”: science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.ade4973
“Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function”: pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1000265107
“Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes”: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09808-z
“Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis”: cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00987-9
“Mitochondrial genomes revisited: why do different lineages retain different genes?”: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12915-024-01824-1.pdf
“Introns and the origin of nucleus–cytosol compartmentalization”: nature.com/articles/nature04531
“Serial endosymbiosis or singular event at the origin of eukaryotes?”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519317302011
“The emerging view on the origin and early evolution of eukaryotic cells”: nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07677-6
“Intracellular Bacteria in the Blue-Green Alga Pleurocapsa minor”: jstor.org/stable/3225953
“Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface”: nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1916-6
“Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent”: nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201634
“Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history”: nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01733-y
“The Polypifer’s Tale”: youtu.be/sMgtGU3aQEw
“The cellulolytic system of the termite gut”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00253-013-5119-z
“Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont”: academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf178/8238455
