Reply to Lane and Martin: Being and becoming eukaryotes

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2; Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2; ford@dal.ca.

Comment

Austin Booth et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015.

. 2015 Sep 1;112(35):E4824.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513285112. Epub 2015 Aug 17.

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2; Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2; ford@dal.ca.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Eukaryogenesis, how special really?
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