The ring of life hypothesis for eukaryote origins is supported by multiple kinds of data.
The literature is replete with manuscripts describing the origin of eukaryotic cells. Most of the models for eukaryogenesis are either autogenous (sometimes called slow-drip), or symbiogenic (sometimes called big-bang). In this article, we use large and diverse suites of 'Omics' and other data to make the inference that autogeneous hypotheses are a very poor fit to the data and the origin of eukaryotic cells occurred in a single symbiosis.
Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK james.o.mcinerney@nuim.ie.
James
J
McInerney
School of Biological Sciences and School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TG, UK.
Davide
D
Pisani
School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland.
Mary J
MJ
O'Connell
D001105:Archaea / Q000235:genetics; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D010802:Phylogeny
eukaryote; fusion; hybrid; merger; phylogeny; ring of life