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| Title |
Origin of phagotrophic eukaryotes as social cheaters in microbial biofilms
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Biology Direct, January 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1745-6150-2-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gáspár Jékely |
| Abstract |
The origin of eukaryotic cells was one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions in the history of life. It is generally assumed that eukaryotes evolved later then prokaryotes by the transformation or fusion of prokaryotic lineages. However, as yet there is no consensus regarding the nature of the prokaryotic group(s) ancestral to eukaryotes. Regardless of this, a hardly debatable fundamental novel characteristic of the last eukaryotic common ancestor was the ability to exploit prokaryotic biomass by the ingestion of entire cells, i.e. phagocytosis. The recent advances in our understanding of the social life of prokaryotes may help to explain the origin of this form of total exploitation. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 71 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Russia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 62 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 19 | 27% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 11% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 15% |
| Unknown | 12 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35 | 49% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 14% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Chemical Engineering | 2 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Unknown | 12 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2023.
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#2,838,635
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#114
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#9,971
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