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Nature Cell Biology 7, 10–12 (1 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncb0105-10

Nuclear pore complexes: Round the bend?

Wolfram Antonin & Iain W. Mattaj

Understanding the origin of eukaryotes is one of the major challenges of evolutionary cell biology. In contrast to prokaryotes, eukaryotes possess intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts, as well as endomembranes.