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Theme issue ‘Eukaryotic origins: progress and challenges’ compiled and edited by T. Martin Embley and Tom A. Williams

26 September 2015; volume 370, issue 1678

INTRODUCTION

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    Introduction:

    Changing ideas about eukaryotic origins

    Tom A. Williams, T. Martin Embley
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140318; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0318. Published 31 August 2015

ARTICLES

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    Review article:

    Eukaryotic origins

    James A. Lake
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140321; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0321. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    The ring of life hypothesis for eukaryote origins is supported by multiple kinds of data

    James McInerney, Davide Pisani, Mary J. O'Connell
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140323; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0323. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    Origin of eukaryotes from within archaea, archaeal eukaryome and bursts of gene gain: eukaryogenesis just made easier?

    Eugene V. Koonin
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140333; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0333. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes

    Jimmy H. Saw, Anja Spang, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Lina Juzokaite, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Dan R. Colman, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Brian P. Hedlund, Lionel Guy, Thijs J. G. Ettema
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140328; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0328. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin

    William F. Martin, Sriram Garg, Verena Zimorski
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140330; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0330. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    Diversity and origins of anaerobic metabolism in mitochondria and related organelles

    Courtney W. Stairs, Michelle M. Leger, Andrew J. Roger
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140326; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0326. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    Recent events dominate interdomain lateral gene transfers between prokaryotes and eukaryotes and, with the exception of endosymbiotic gene transfers, few ancient transfer events persist

    Laura A. Katz
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140324; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0324. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    Genome-scale phylogenetic analysis finds extensive gene transfer among fungi

    Gergely J. Szöllősi, Adrián Arellano Davín, Eric Tannier, Vincent Daubin, Bastien Boussau
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140335; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0335. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    New genes from non-coding sequence: the role of de novo protein-coding genes in eukaryotic evolutionary innovation

    Aoife McLysaght, Daniele Guerzoni
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140332; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0332. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    What's in a genome? The C-value enigma and the evolution of eukaryotic genome content

    Tyler A. Elliott, T. Ryan Gregory
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140331; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0331. Published 31 August 2015
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    Opinion piece:

    Probabilistic models of eukaryotic evolution: time for integration

    Nicolas Lartillot
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140338; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0338. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis

    Wasiu A. Akanni, Karen Siu-Ting, Christopher J. Creevey, James O. McInerney, Mark Wilkinson, Peter G. Foster, Davide Pisani
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140337; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0337. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    Evolution of viruses and cells: do we need a fourth domain of life to explain the origin of eukaryotes?

    David Moreira, Purificación López-García
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140327; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0327. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    Eukaryotes first: how could that be?

    Carlos Mariscal, W. Ford Doolittle
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140322; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0322. Published 31 August 2015
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    Review article:

    Rooting the tree of life: the phylogenetic jury is still out

    Richard Gouy, Denis Baurain, Hervé Philippe
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140329; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0329. Published 31 August 2015
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    Research article:

    New substitution models for rooting phylogenetic trees

    Tom A. Williams, Sarah E. Heaps, Svetlana Cherlin, Tom M. W. Nye, Richard J. Boys, T. Martin Embley
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20140336; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0336. Published 31 August 2015

CORRECTIONS

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    Corrections:

    Correction to ‘Present and future projections of habitat suitability of the Asian tiger mosquito, a vector of viral pathogens, from global climate simulation’

    Y. Proestos, G. K. Christophides, K. Ergüler, M. Tanarhte, J. Waldock, J. Lelieveld
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2015 370 20150246; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0246. Published 31 August 2015
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