RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Late mitochondrial origin is pure artefact
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 055368
DO 10.1101/055368
A1 William F. Martin
A1 Mayo Roettger
A1 Chuan Ku
A1 Sriram G. Garg
A1 Shijulal Nelson-Sathi
A1 Giddy Landan
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/25/055368.abstract
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.