The authors present a testable model for the origin of the nucleus, …

• Abstract
• Two domains, not three
• The chimera: arcahaebacterium/bacterium merger
• The "thiodendron" stage
• Karyomastigonts preceded nuclei
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Figures
• Table

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Acknowledgments

- The chimeric eukaryote: Origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists

 
We thank our colleagues Ray Bradley, Michael Chapman, Floyd Craft, Kathryn Delisle (for figures), Ugo d'Ambrosio, Donna Reppard, Dennis Searcy, and Andrew Wier. We acknowledge research assistance from the University of Massachusetts Graduate School via Linda Slakey, Dean of Natural Science and Mathematics, from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and from the American Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrates (New York). Our research is supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Sciences and Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia Project No. AMB98-0338 (to R.G.).

Footnotes

This paper was presented at the National Academy of Sciences colloquium “Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins,” held January 27–29, 2000, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.