[News] Core Nuclear Pore Elements Likely Shared By All Eukaryotes

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Core Nuclear Pore Elements Likely Shared By All Eukaryotes

ScienceDaily (July 13, 2009) — For perhaps 1.8 billion years after life first emerged on Earth, a sort of evolutionary writer’s block stalled the development of organisms more complicated than single cells. Then, a burst of experimental creativity about 1.7 billion years ago brought the cell nucleus onto the scene, stashing the cell’s genetic material inside a protective inner membrane and setting the stage for the evolution of more sophisticated creatures from yeast, say, to plants and human beings.

 

Core Nuclear Pore Elements Likely Shared By All Eukaryotes