TY - JOUR T1 - Late mitochondrial origin is pure artefact JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/055368 SP - 055368 AU - William F. Martin AU - Mayo Roettger AU - Chuan Ku AU - Sriram G. Garg AU - Shijulal Nelson-Sathi AU - Giddy Landan Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/25/055368.abstract N2 - Pittis and Gabaldón1 recently claimed that the mitochondrion came late in eukaryotic evolution, following an earlier phase of evolution in which the eukaryotic host lineage acquired genes from bacteria. Here we show that their paper has multiple fatal flaws founded in inappropriate statistical methods and analyses, in addition to erroneous interpretations. ER -