Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications
J. Vosseberg, J. J. E. van Hooff, M. Marcet-Houben, A. van Vlimmeren, L. M. van Wijk, T. Gabaldon, B. Snel
The paper uses phylogenomics to infer the timing of gene duplications during eukaryogenesis, showing early expansion of cytoskeletal and membrane trafficking genes and later expansion after mitochondrial endosymbiosis.
bioRxiv · Jul 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology