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Origins of Eukaryotic Sexual Reproduction

Author(s) -

Ursula Goodenough,

Joseph Heitman

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

cold spring harbor perspectives in biology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.011

H-Index - 173

ISSN - 1943-0264

DOI - 10.1101/cshperspect.a016154

Subject(s) - biology , sexual reproduction , meiosis , evolutionary biology , ancestor , genome , genetic algorithm , evolution of sexual reproduction , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , genetics , reproduction , gene , history , archaeology

Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to all eukaryotes. Using the perspectives of molecular genetics and cell biology, we consider documented and hypothetical scenarios for the instantiation and evolution of meiosis, fertilization, sex determination, uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes, and speciation.

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