PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - William F. Martin
AU  - Mayo Roettger
AU  - Chuan Ku
AU  - Sriram G. Garg
AU  - Shijulal Nelson-Sathi
AU  - Giddy Landan
TI  - Late mitochondrial origin is pure artefact
AID  - 10.1101/055368
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 055368
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/25/055368.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/25/055368.full
AB  - 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.