«These genes could have provided a starter kit for eukaryogenesis, the emergence of eukaryotes,» said Thijs Ettema, a microbiologist at Uppsala University in Sweden who first described Loki in collaboration with Schleper in Nature last May. (scientificamerican.com)
«We believe it will be very difficult to crack the mysteries of eukaryogenesis without first understanding the archaeal cell biology,» Dey says. (sciencedaily.com)
This consequently suggested that the Last Common Eukaryotic Ancestor (LECA) contained the ancestor of all mitochondria and derived mitochondria and, assuming that true Archezoa have never existed, the acquisition of the mitochondrial ancestor triggered eukaryogenesis. (ettemalab.org)