Metakaryota
| Metakaryota | |
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| Superkingdom: | Metakaryota Cavalier-Smith, 1991
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The superkingdom Metakaryota was defined by Thomas Cavalier-Smith as advanced eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a proteobacterium, giving rise the mitochondrion, by an archezoan eukaryote.
References
- ^ T. Martin Embley, Robert P. Hirt & David M. Williams (1994). "Biodiversity at the molecular level: the domains, kingdoms and phyla of life". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 345 (1311): 21–33. doi:10.1098/rstb.1994.0083. JSTOR 56135. PMID 7972353.
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