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The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-karyote to an Aggressive Alphaproteobacterial Periplasmic Infection

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The organisms were classified as either prokaryotes or eukaryotes in pre-genomic era. While eukaryotes possess the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and are sexual, none of these features is present in prokaryotes. The view of prokaryote–eukaryote dichotomy has dramatically changed, when the rRNA sequence comparisons of Woese and Fox (1977) revealed that two kinds of prokaryotes exist: Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. Woese et al. (1990) later suggested that three domains of life exist: Bacteria (Eubacteria), Archaea (Archaebacteria), and Eukarya (eukaryotes). Moreover, it has been proposed that Archaea and Eukarya are more closely related to each other than both these domains are related to Bacteria (Woese et al., 1990). The historical view that eukaryotes evolved from bacteria now seems to be oversimplified.

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We thank the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (grants VEGA 1/3249/06, and 1/0416/09 to Juraj Krajčovič) and Comenius University (grants UK/98/2006, UK/144/2007, and UK/208/2009 to Matej Vestej) for support.

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Vesteg, M., Krajčovič, J. (2010). The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-karyote to an Aggressive Alphaproteobacterial Periplasmic Infection. In: Seckbach, J., Grube, M. (eds) Symbioses and Stress. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9449-0_4

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