by Nick Lane
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Part 1
General texts
Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 2004.
de Duve, Christian. Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2002.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
Penguin, London, UK, 1989.
Knoll, Andrew H. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, 2003.
Lane, Nick. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2002.
Margulis, Lynn. Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. Yale University Press, Yale, USA, 1970.
Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 2002.
Morris, Simon Conway. Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003.
The origin of eukaryotic cells
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Vellai, T., and Vida, G. The origin of eukaryotes: The difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 266: 1571–1577; 1999.
Catastrophic loss of the cell wall
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Maynard-Smith, John, and Szathmáry, Eörs. The Origins of Life, Chapter 6: The Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999.
Bacterial cytoskeleton
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Jones, L. J., Carballido-Lopez, R., and Errington, J. Control of cell shape in bacteria: Helical, actin-like filaments in Bacillus subtilis. Cell 104: 913–922; 2001.
Discovery of the archaea
Keeling, P. J., and Doolittle, W. F. Archaea: Narrowing the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 92: 5761–5764; 1995.
Woese, C. R., and Fox, G. E. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 74: 5088–5090; 1977.
The archezoa
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Rickettsia as the ancestor of mitochondria
Andersson, J. O., and Andersson, S. G. A century of typhus, lice and Rickettsia. Research in Microbiology 151: 143–150; 2000.
Andersson, S. G., Zomorodipour, A., Andersson J. O., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Alsmark U. C., Podowski, R. M., Naslund, A. K., Eriksson, A. S., Winkler, H. H., Kurland, C. G. The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria. Nature 396: 133–140; 1998.
Andersson, S. G. E., Karlberg, O., Canback, B., and Kurland, C. G. On the origin of mitochondria: A genomics perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 358: 165–179; 2003.
Collapse of the archezoa
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Keeling, P. J. A kingdom’s progress: Archezoa and the origin of eukaryotes. Bioessays 20: 87–95; 1998.
Methanogens as the host cell
Martin, W., and Embley, T. M. Early evolution comes full circle. Nature 431: 134–136; 2004.
Pereira, S. L., Grayling, R. A., Lurz, R., and Reeve, J. N. Archaeal nucleosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 94: 12633–12637; 1997.
Rivera, M., Jain, R., Moore, J. E., and Lake, J. A. Genomic evidence for two functionally distinct gene classes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 95: 6239–6244; 1998.
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Hydrogen hypothesis
Akhmanova, A., Voncken, F., van Alen, T., van Hoek, A., Boxma, B., Vogels, G., Veenhuis, M., and Hackstein, J. H. A hydrogenosome with a genome. Nature 396: 527–528; 1998.
Boxma, B., de Graat, R. M., and van der Staay, G. W., et al. An anaerobic mitochondrion that produces hydrogen. Nature 434: 74–79; 2005.
Embley, T. M., and Martin, W. A hydrogen-producing mitochondrion. Nature 396: 517–519; 1998.
Gray, M. W. Evolutionary biology: The hydrogenosome’s murky past. Nature 434: 29–31; 2005.
Martin, W., and Müller, M. The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature 392: 37–41; 1998.
—— Russell, M. J. On the origins of cells: A hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 358: 59–85; 2003.
Müller, M., and Martin, W. The genome of Rickettsia prowazekii and some thoughts on the origin of mitochondria and hydrogenosomes. Bioessays 21: 377–381; 1999.
Anaerobic mitochondria
Horner, D. S., Heil, B., Happe, T., and Embley, T. M. Iron hydrogenases—ancient enzymes in modern eukaryotes. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 27: 148–153; 2002.
Sutak, R., Dolezal, P., Fiumera, H. L., Hardy, I., Dancis, A., Delgadillo-Correa, M., Johnson, P. J., Mujller, M., and Tachezy, J. Mitochondrial-type assembly of FeS centers in the hydrogenosomes of the amitochondriate eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101: 10368–10373; 2004.
Theissen, U., Hoffmeister, M., Grieshaber, M., and Martin, W. Single eubacterial origin of eukaryotic sulfide: Quinone oxidoreductase, a mitochondrial enzyme conserved from the early evolution of eukaryotes during anoxic and sulfidic times. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(9): 1564–1574; 2003.
Tielens, A. G., Rotte, C., van Hellemond, J. J., and Martin, W. Mitochondria as we don’t know them. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 27: 564–572; 2002.
Van der Giezen, M., Slotboom, D. J., Horner, D. S., Dyal, P. L., Harding, M., Xue, G. P., Embley, T. M., and Kunji, E. R. Conserved properties of hydrogenosomal and mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers: A common origin for both organelles. EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Journal 21: 572–579; 2002.
Ocean chemistry
Anbar, A. D., and Knoll, A. H. Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution: A bioinorganic bridge? Science 297: 1137–1142; 2002.
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Part 2
General texts
de Duve, Christian. Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2002.
Harold, Franklin M. The Way of the Cell. Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life. Oxford U
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—— The Vital Force: A Study of Bioenergetics. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, USA, 1986.
Lane, Nick. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2002.
Nicholls, David, and Ferguson, Stuart J. Bioenergetics 3. Academic Press, Oxford, UK, 2002.
Prebble, John, and Weber, Bruce. Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind—Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2003.
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Energy production and the sun
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Lavoisier and the discovery of respiration
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Lavoisier, A. Elements of Chemistry. Dover Publications Inc., New York, USA, 1965.
Morris, R. The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table. Joseph Henry Press, Washington DC, USA, 2003.
Discovery of the respiratory chain
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Fermentation
Buchner, E. Cell-Free Fermentation. In Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901–1921, Nobel Lecture, 1907. Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Holland, 1966 (and available online at the Nobel e-Museum).
Discovery of ATP
Engelhardt, W. A. Life and Science. Autobiography. Annual Review of Biochemistry 51: 1–19; 1982.
Fruton, J. Proteins, Enzymes, Genes: The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology. Yale University Press, New Haven, USA, 1999.
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Rate of ATP production
Rich, P. The cost of living. Nature 421: 583; 2003.
The elusive squiggle
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Harold, F. M. The 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Science 202: 1174–1176; 1978.
Peter Mitchell and chemiosmotics
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Matzke, M. A, and Matzke, A. J. M. Kuhnian revolutions in biology: Peter Mitchell and the chemiosmotic theory. Bioessays 19: 91–93; 1997.
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Orgel, L. E. Are you serious, Dr Mitchell? Nature 402: 17; 1999.
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The Jagendorf-Uribe experiment
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Structure of the ATPase
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Wider function of the proton current
Harold, Franklin M. The Way of the Cell. Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2001.
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Origin of life
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Part 3
General texts
Dennett, Daniel. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. Penguin, London, UK, 1995.
Maynard Smith, John, and Szathmáry, Eörs. The Origins of Life. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999.
Monod, Jacques. Chance and Necessity. Penguin, London, UK, 1997 (first published in English 1971).
Prescott, L. M., Harley, J. P., and Klein, D. A. Microbiology (5th edition). McGraw-Hill Education, Maidenhead, UK, 2001.
Ridley, Mark. Mendel’s Demon. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 2000.
Speed of bacterial proliferation
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Koedoed, S., Otten, M. F., Koebmann, B. J., Bruggeman, F. J., Bakker, B. M., Snoep, J. L., Krab, K., van Spanning, R. J. M., van Verseveld, H. W., Jensen, P. R., Koster, J. G., and Westerhoff, H. V. A turbo engine with automatic transmission? How to marry chemicomotion to the subtleties and robustness of life. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1555: 75–82; 2002.
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Genome size of soil bacteria
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Genome of Rickettsia
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Andersson, S. G., Zomorodipour, A., Andersson, J. O., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Alsmark, U. C., Podowski, R. M., Naslund, A. K., Eriksson, A. S., Winkler, H. H., and Kurland, C. G. The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria. Nature 396: 133–140; 1998.
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Gene loss and lateral gene transfer
