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What can we infer about the origin of sex in early eukaryotes?

Current analysis shows that the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) was capable of full meiotic sex. The original eukaryotic life cycle can probably be described as clonal, interrupted by episodic sex triggered by external or internal stressors. The cycle could have started in a highly flexible f...

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Published in:Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Main Author: Speijer, Dave
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031615/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27619694
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0530
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