Keys to eukaryality: planctomycetes and ancestral evolution of cellular complexity
Planctomycetes are known to display compartmentalization via internal membranes, thus resemblingeukaryotes. Significantly, the planctomycete Gemmata obscuriglobus has not only a nuclear regionsurrounded by a double-membrane, but is also capable of protein uptake via endocytosis. In order toclearly a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00167/full |