Analects of the Core: Lane on eukaryotes and mitochondrial jumping genes

February 2, 2011 at 12:01 pm

The chimeric ancestor of the eukaryotes apparently succumbed to an invasion of jumping genes from its mitochondria.

— Nick Lane, in his discussion of the evolution of cellular complexity, page 115, in Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, a book now studied in CC106: Biodiversity

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