The American Naturalist, Vol. 154, No. S4, Evolutionary Relationships Among Eukaryotes A Symposium Organized by Laura A. Katz (Guest Editor) and Mitchell L. Sogin (October 1999), pp. 96-124 (29 pages) ...

In addition, the fossils themselves can be useful, allowing scientists to determine when certain external features first appeared, adds Porter, who is currently interrogating such specimens to order ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae. Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids ...

Ancoracysta is a protist, a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit at the root of the eukaryotic tree of life. For researchers such as Janouškovec, they are an ... After a year teaching ...

Many bacterial genes were transferred from the genome of the endosymbiont to the eukaryotic nuclear genome during evolution of the mitochondria. How do scientists believe this transfer could have ...