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The nature of the last universal common ancestor

Penny, David, Poole, Anthony·1999·Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
DOI 10.1016/s0959-437x(99)00020-9
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Cytologically, prokaryotes appear simpler and thus evolutionarily 'older' than eukaryotes. In terms of RNA processing, however, prokaryotes are sophisticated and eukaryotes, which retain many features of an RNA-world, appear primitive. The last universal common ancestor may have been mesophilic and could have had many features of the eukaryote genome, but its cytology is unknown.

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  1. Poole, 1999, Early evolution: prokaryotes, the new kids on the block, Bioessays, 21, 880, 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199910)21:10<880::AID-BIES11>3.0.CO;2-P · DOI
  2. Koonin, 1996, Non-orthologous gene replacement, Trends Genet, 12, 334, 10.1016/0168-9525(96)20010-1 · DOI

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Authors
Penny, D., & Poole, A.
Affiliations
  • Massey University (NZ)
  • Stockholm University (SE)
Corresponding author
  • Penny, David
  • Poole, Anthony
ORCID
Poole, Anthony
Venue
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-12
Volume
9
Issue
6
Pages
672-677
ISSN
0959-437X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0959-437x(99)00020-9
OpenAlex
W1963854145
Cited by
162
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
FWCI
0.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Protist diversity and phylogeny
Keywords
last universal common ancestor, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, RNA processing, RNA world, eukaryotic genome evolution, eukaryotic origin
MeSH terms
Animals, Eukaryotic Cells, Genes, Models, Genetic, Phylogeny, Prokaryotic Cells, RNA, Selection, Genetic, Temperature, Genome, Evolution, Molecular

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