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The last universal common ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner.

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Boussau B, Blanquart S, Necsulea A, Lartillot N, Gouy M.

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Koonin EV.

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The two ages of the RNA world, and the transition to the DNA world: a story of viruses and cells.

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About the last common ancestor, the universal life-tree and lateral gene transfer: a reappraisal.

Glansdorff N.

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Brown JR, Doolittle WF.

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[Luca: the last universal common ancestor]

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Di Giulio M.

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Zimmer C.

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On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.

Martin W, Russell MJ.

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