Open AccessEukaryotes really are special, and mitochondria are why
Author(s) -
Nick Lane,
William Martin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1509237112
Subject(s) - mitochondrion , biology , computational biology , evolutionary biology , microbiology and biotechnology
Booth and Doolittle (1) criticize three supposed flaws in our argument (2) that the energetic advantage of mitochondria enabled the prokaryote to eukaryote transition. Their critique, not our paper, is flawed. A reply is in order.
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