On the evolution of cells

By Carl R. Woese. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Collective evolution and the genetic code. (2006, background): “While H is a constant in this set of simulations, the discussion in [18] suggests that it is in fact a dynamical variable that is initially large and gradually decreases as better translation allows the evolution of a protein network with more specific interactions.”
Comparative genomics, minimal gene-sets and the last universal common ancestor (2003, background): “Conversely, in the early days of microbial evolution, at the time LUCA existed and shortly thereafter, HGT might have been much more rampant than it was after the main phylogenetic lineages were fully establishe”
Dynamic Energy Budget Theory for Metabolic Organisation (2005, background): “Woese [1265] hypothesised that lateral gene transfer could have been intense in proto-cells with a simple organisation; diversification through Darwinian mutation and selection could only occur after a given stage in complexity had been reached, that is when lateral gene transfer could have been muc”
The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa. (2002, background): “Secondary symbiogenesis and the origin of chromalveolates Plastids of chromists (Cavalier-Smith, 1986) and alveolates (Cavalier-Smith, 1991f) originated by the symbiogenetic uptake of a eukaryote alga by a biciliate anterokont host, probably a heterotroph (CavalierSmith, 1982d, 1986).”
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota (2008, background): “jpg" NDATA ITEM> ]> Diverse microorganisms and microbial communities are a feature of modern life on the Earth, and have probably been necessary for the evolution of life as we know i”
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “The first successful escapes of cellular life forms from the hypothetical precellular pool would correspond to the Darwinian threshold for cellular life that Woese postulated—that is, the threshold beyond which HGT would be substantially curtailed and evolution of distinct lineages (species) of cell”
The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles (2003, neutral): “Moreover, the unclear nature of the LUCA ( Woese 1998, 2000, 2002 ) might imply a trifurcation for the three domains in the tree of life (Di Giulio 2000a) (thus closer to Fig. 1a than Fig. 1b), since in the divergence process there would not be a real tree structure (as indicated in Fig. 1b) but the”
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. (2003, background): “Various kinds of genetic exchange that have been repeatedly postulated (Woese 2002) before the origin of a truly membrane-bounded cellular organization of prokaryotes could be easily accommodated by the model.”