publication . Article . 2016

Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

Name: Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?
Keywords: Cell Biology, Microbiology (medical), Genetics, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Immunology, Microbiology

Johann Peter Gogarten; David W. Deamer;

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Published: 25 Nov 2016 Journal: Nature Microbiology, volume 1 (eissn: 2058-5276,

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Summary

Abstract

We comment on several claims made in the paper by Weiss et al. which describes a genomic analysis that they believe is consistent with the origin of life and emergence of a progenote-like last universal common ancestor (LUCA) in hydrothermal vent conditions.

Persistent Identifiers

doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.229

Fields of Science (FOS) [Beta]

03 medical and health sciences, 0301 basic medicine, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery

Subjects

free text keywords: Cell Biology, Microbiology (medical), Genetics, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Immunology, Microbiology, Thermophile, Computational biology, Archaea, biology.organism_classification, biology, Last universal ancestor

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University of Connecticut
United States
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States
Connecticut Sea Grant
United States

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