No Genome is an Island Extra References 4

 

4. The Deepest Event in Known Evolutionary History Involved Cell Fusion:

 

(Margulis 1996; Brown and Doolittle 1997; Moreira and Lopez-Garcia 1998; Horiike, Hamada et al. 2002; Martin 2005; Di Giulio 2007; Yutin, Makarova et al. 2008; Gribaldo, Poole et al. 2010; Bernander, Lind et al. 2011; Guy and Ettema 2011; Poole and Neumann 2011; Williams, Foster et al. 2012; Forterre 2013; Williams, Foster et al. 2013; Koonin and Yutin 2014; Poole and Gribaldo 2014; Grau-Bove, Sebe-Pedros et al. 2015; Koonin 2015; Spang, Saw et al. 2015; Dey, Thattai et al. 2016; Pittis and Gabaldon 2016; Eme, Spang et al. 2017; Martin, Tielens et al. 2017; Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Caceres et al. 2017; Da Cunha, Gaia et al. 2018; Spang, Eme et al. 2018)

 

·      Paleontology of Early Life Forms: (Buick 1992; Brasier, McLoughlin et al. 2006; Fedo, Whitehouse et al. 2006; Schopf 2006; Ventura 2007; Tomescu, Honegger et al. 2008; Kazmierczak and Kremer 2009; Ohtomo, Kakegawa et al. 2014; Zachar and Szathmary 2017; Bobrovskiy, Hope et al. 2018)

 

·      Oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria. (Berman-Frank, Lundgren et al. 2003; Bryant and Frigaard 2006; Mulkidjanian, Koonin et al. 2006; Price, Badger et al. 2008; Rasmussen, Fletcher et al. 2008; Schwartzman, Caldeira et al. 2008; Johnson, Stewart et al. 2011; Soo, Skennerton et al. 2014; Gan and Bryant 2015; Hamilton, Bryant et al. 2016; Alvarenga, Fiore et al. 2017; Chau, Bhaya et al. 2017; Rockwell and Lagarias 2017)

 

·      Evolutionary modification of mitochondrial genomes: (Brown, George et al. 1979; Ernster and Schatz 1981; Koll, Boulay et al. 1996; Rotte, Henze et al. 2000; Bergthorsson, Adams et al. 2003; Burger, Gray et al. 2003; Emelyanov 2003; Gray, Lang et al. 2004; Korpelainen 2004; Lukes, Hashimi et al. 2005; Marande, Lukes et al. 2005; van der Giezen and Tovar 2005; van Opijnen, Baudry et al. 2005; Hackstein, Tjaden et al. 2006; Shutt and Gray 2006; Westenberger, Cerqueira et al. 2006; Martin and . 2007; Popescu and Lee 2007; Moon, Cho et al. 2008; Wang and Lavrov 2008; Xiong, Peng et al. 2008; Beckenbach and Joy 2009; Bouchier, Ma et al. 2009; Erpenbeck, Voigt et al. 2009; Shao, Kirkness et al. 2009; Smith and Lee 2009; Vaidya and Mather 2009; Waller and Jackson 2009; Hikosaka, Watanabe et al. 2010; Hjort, Goldberg et al. 2010; Perez-Brocal, Shahar-Golan et al. 2010; Shiflett and Johnson 2010; Davila, Arrieta-Montiel et al. 2011; Flegontov, Gray et al. 2011; Hikosaka, Watanabe et al. 2011; Thrash, Boyd et al. 2011; Valach, Farkas et al. 2011; Gray 2012; Hikosaka, Tsuji et al. 2012; Kayal, Bentlage et al. 2012; Sloan, Alverson et al. 2012; Sloan, Alverson et al. 2012; Smith, Kayal et al. 2012; Rice, Alverson et al. 2013; Smith, Hua et al. 2013; Xi, Wang et al. 2013; Gualberto, Mileshina et al. 2014; Makiuchi and Nozaki 2014; Ju, Tubio et al. 2015) (Faktorova, Dobakova et al. 2016; Lavrov and Pett 2016; Gandini and Sanchez-Puerta 2017; Arimura 2018; Martijn, Vosseberg et al. 2018)

 

·      DNA Transfers Between Different Cell Compartments: (Thorsness and Fox 1990; Ricchetti, Fairhead et al. 1999; Adams, Daley et al. 2000; Adams and Palmer 2003; Bergthorsson, Adams et al. 2003; Burger, Gray et al. 2003; Bergthorsson, Richardson et al. 2004; Ricchetti, Tekaia et al. 2004; Bachtrog, Thornton et al. 2006; Kubo, Fujimoto et al. 2008; Hazkani-Covo 2009; Hlaing, Tun-Lin et al. 2009; Caro, Gomez et al. 2010; Cheng and Ivessa 2010; Lenglez, Hermand et al. 2010; Mower, Stefanovic et al. 2010; Chatre and Ricchetti 2011; Melo-Ferreira, Boursot et al. 2012; Messenger, Llewellyn et al. 2012; Rogers and Griffiths-Jones 2012; Soto-Calderon, Lee et al. 2012; Song, Jiang et al. 2013; Ju, Tubio et al. 2015; Kaniak-Golik and Skoneczna 2015)

 

 

 

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