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The Biological Big Bang model for the major transitions in evolution

Eugene V Koonin

Biology Direct 2007, 2:21 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-21

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The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics

Eugene V Koonin Genome Biology 2010, 11:209 (5 May 2010)

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Comparative genomics and new phylogenies of eukaryote groups suggest a scenario in which the mitochondrial endosymbiosis triggered the origin of eukaryotes.

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Phylogenetic detection of numerous gene duplications shared by animals, fungi and plants

Xiaofan Zhou, Zhenguo Lin, Hong Ma Genome Biology 2010, 11:R38 (6 April 2010)

A phylogentic analysis reveals that many gene duplications occurred prior to the split in animals, fungi and plants.

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A manual collection of Syt, Esyt, Rph3a, Rph3al, Doc2, and Dblc2 genes from 46 metazoan genomes - an open access resource for neuroscience and evolutionary biology

Molly Craxton BMC Genomics 2010, 11:37 (15 January 2010)

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The Universal Plausibility Metric (UPM) & Principle (UPP)

David L Abel Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2009, 6:27 (3 December 2009)

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Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees

Carlos Llorens, Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer, Lucia Bernad, Hector Botella, Andrés Moya Biology Direct 2009, 4:41 (2 November 2009)

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Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest

Pere Puigbò, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Journal of Biology 2009, 8:59 (13 July 2009)

Koonin and colleagues, comparing a forest of 7000 phylogenetic trees, discern vertical inheritance even at the earliest stages of prokaryotic evolution, despite horizontal gene transfer, but the branching order of the earliest radiations may never be resolved.

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Evolution based on domain combinations: the case of glutaredoxins

Rui Alves, Ester Vilaprinyo, Albert Sorribas, Enrique Herrero BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:66 (25 March 2009)

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The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

Nicolas Glansdorff, Ying Xu, Bernard Labedan Biology Direct 2008, 3:29 (9 July 2008)

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The Last Universal Common Ancestor developed in a protoeukaryotic, promiscuous and genetically redundant community of cells with a broad, moderate thermal profile and an RNA genome enclosed in a protonucleus.