Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2017-01-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/nature21031PMID 28077874
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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