Organelle evolution, fragmented rRNAs, and Carl

I am honored to have been asked to contribute to this memorial issue, although I cannot claim to have known Carl Woese well. Carl’s insights and the discoveries that his research group made over the years certainly stimulated my own research program, and at several points early on, interactions with him were pivotal in my career. Here I comment on these personal dealings with Carl and emphasize his influence in two areas of long-standing interest in my lab: organelle evolution and rRNA evolution.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  RNA Biology

• Publication date

  2014-02-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4161/rna.27799PMID 24572720PMCID 4008552
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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