The earliest eukaryote species almost certainly evolved in an environment dominated by numerous prokaryotic species. If the first eukaryotic cells were larger and grew more slowly than their prokaryotic neighbours, they might well have been at a competitive disadvantage. It is proposed here that the
Predation between prokaryotes and the origin of eukaryotes
β Scribed by Yaacov Davidov; Edouard Jurkevitch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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