A paradigm gets shifty

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Abstract

The prevailing view of the origin of complex eukaryotic cells presumes a symbiosis, based on respiration, between a bacterium and a primitive eukaryotic 'host'. But could the symbiosis have been based instead on hydrogen metabolism, with the host being an archaean?.

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Doolittle, W. F. (1998, March 5). A paradigm gets shifty. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/32033

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