The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

Christopher E. Lane; John M. Archibald

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.02.004

The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

Christopher E. Lane, John M. Archibald

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Resolving the structure of the eukaryotic tree of life remains one of the most important and challenging tasks facing biologists. The notion of six eukaryotic 'supergroups' has recently gained some acceptance, and several papers in 2007 suggest that resolution of higher taxonomic levels is possible. However, in organisms that acquired photosynthesis via secondary (i.e. eukaryote-eukaryote) endosymbiosis, the host nuclear genome is a mosaic of genes derived from two (or more) nuclei, a fact that is often overlooked in studies attempting to reconstruct the deep evolutionary history of eukaryotes. Accurate identification of gene transfers and replacements involving eukaryotic donor and recipient genomes represents a potentially formidable challenge for the phylogenomics community as more protist genomes are sequenced and concatenated data sets grow.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	268-275
Número de páginas	8
Publicación	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volumen	23
N.º	5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.02.004
Estado	Published - may. 2008
Publicado de forma externa	Sí

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We thank A. Simpson, E. Kim and G. Sanchez Perez for helpful comments on this manuscript and the useful input of four anonymous reviewers. We apologize to those whose important work could not be cited owing to space constraints. Research in the Archibald laboratory is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). J.M.A. is a Scholar of the CIFAR Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity.

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