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Mind the gaps in cellular evolution

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Eukaryotic cells, with complex features such as membrane-bound nuclei, evolved from prokaryotic cells that lack these components. A newly identified prokaryotic group reveals intermediate steps in eukaryotic-cell evolution. See Article p.353

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  1. James O. McInerney is in the Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.,

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  2. Mary J. O'Connell is in the Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,

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