Array ( [0] => {{good article}} [1] => {{Short description|Domain of life whose cells have nuclei}} [2] => {{Redirect|Eukaryotic cell|the journal|Eukaryotic Cell (journal){{!}}''Eukaryotic Cell'' (journal)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} [3] => {{Use American English|date=March 2017}} [4] => {{Automatic taxobox [5] => | name = Eukaryota [6] => | fossil_range = [[Statherian]]–[[Holocene|Present]] {{long fossil range|1650|0 |earliest=2300}} [7] => | image = {{Multiple image [8] => | perrow = 2/2/2 [9] => | total_width = 270 [10] => | image1 = Rhodomonas salina CCMP 322.jpg [11] => | caption1 = [[Cryptista]] [12] => | image2 = Ranunculus asiaticus4LEST.jpg [13] => | caption2 = [[Viridiplantae]] (plants) [14] => | image3 = Trypanosoma sp. PHIL 613 lores.jpg [15] => | caption3 = [[Discoba]] [16] => | image4 = Chaos carolinensis Wilson 1900.jpg [17] => | caption4 = [[Amoebozoa]] [18] => | image5 = Ammonia tepida.jpg [19] => | caption5 = [[Rhizaria]] [20] => | image6 = Isotricha intestinalis.jpg [21] => | caption6 = [[Alveolata]] [22] => | image7 = Osmia rufa couple (aka).jpg [23] => | caption7 = [[Animalia]] [24] => | image8 = Boletus edulis (Tillegem).jpg [25] => | caption8 = [[Fungi]] [26] => | border = infobox [27] => }} [28] => | taxon = Eukaryota [29] => | authority = ([[Édouard Chatton|Chatton]], 1925) [[Robert Whittaker (ecologist)|Whittaker]] & [[Lynn Margulis|Margulis]], 1978 [30] => | subdivision_ranks = [[Supergroup (biology)|Supergroups]] and [[Kingdom (biology)|kingdoms]] [31] => | subdivision = * [[Diaphoretickes]] [32] => ** [[SAR supergroup]] [33] => ** [[Haptista]] [34] => ** [[Cryptista]] [35] => ** [[Archaeplastida]] (incl. [[Plants]]) [36] => ** [[Provora]] [37] => * [[Hemimastigophora]] [38] => * [[Metamonada]] [39] => * [[Malawimonadida]] [40] => * [[Ancyromonadida]] [41] => * [[CRuMs]] [42] => * [[Amorphea]] [43] => ** [[Amoebozoa]] [44] => ** [[Breviatea]] [45] => ** [[Apusomonadida]] [46] => ** [[Opisthokonta]] [47] => *** [[Holomycota]] (incl. [[Fungi]]) [48] => *** [[Holozoa]] (incl. [[Animals]]) [49] => {{!}}- style="background:#e0d0b0;" {{!}} [50] => | synonyms = * Eucarya {{au|[[Carl Woese|Woese]] et al. 1990}} [51] => * Eukarya {{au|[[Lynn Margulis|Margulis]] 1996}} [52] => }} [53] => The '''eukaryotes''' ({{IPAc-en|j|uː|ˈ|k|ær|i|oʊ|t|s|,_|-|ə|t|s}} {{respell|yoo|KARR|ee|ohts|,_|-|əts}}) constitute the [[Domain (biology)|domain]] of '''Eukarya''' or '''Eukaryota''', [[organism]]s whose [[Cell (biology)|cells]] have a membrane-bound [[cell nucleus|nucleus]]. All [[animal]]s, [[plant]]s, [[Fungus|fungi]], and many [[unicellular organism]]s are eukaryotes. They constitute a major group of [[Outline of life forms|life forms]] alongside the two groups of [[prokaryote]]s: the [[Bacteria]] and the [[Archaea]]. Eukaryotes represent a small minority of the number of organisms, but given their generally much larger size, their collective [[global biomass]] is much larger than that of prokaryotes. [54] => [55] => The eukaryotes seemingly emerged within the [[Asgard (archaea)|Asgard archaea]], and are closely related to the [[Heimdallarchaeia]].{{cite journal |last1=Eme |first1=Laura |last2=Tamarit |first2=Daniel |last3=Caceres |first3=Eva F. |last4=Stairs |first4=Courtney W. |last5=De Anda |first5=Valerie |last6=Schön |first6=Max E. |last7=Seitz |first7=Kiley W. |last8=Dombrowski |first8=Nina |last9=Lewis |first9=William H. |last10=Homa |first10=Felix |last11=Saw |first11=Jimmy H. |last12=Lombard |first12=Jonathan |last13=Nunoura |first13=Takuro |last14=Li |first14=Wen-Jun |last15=Hua |first15=Zheng-Shuang |last16=Chen |first16=Lin-Xing |last17=Banfield |first17=Jillian F. |last18=John |first18=Emily St |last19=Reysenbach |first19=Anna-Louise |last20=Stott |first20=Matthew B. |last21=Schramm |first21=Andreas |last22=Kjeldsen |first22=Kasper U. |last23=Teske |first23=Andreas P. |last24=Baker |first24=Brett J. |last25=Ettema |first25=Thijs J. G. |title=Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes |journal=Nature |date=29 June 2023 |volume=618 |issue=7967 |pages=992–999 |doi=10.1038/s41586-023-06186-2 |pmid=37316666 |issn=1476-4687 |pmc=10307638|bibcode=2023Natur.618..992E }} This implies that there are only [[Two-domain system|two domains of life]], Bacteria and Archaea, with eukaryotes incorporated among the Archaea. Eukaryotes first emerged during the [[Paleoproterozoic]], likely as [[Flagellated cell|flagellated]] cells. The leading [[evolutionary]] theory is they were created by [[symbiogenesis]] between an anaerobic Asgard archaean and an aerobic [[proteobacterium]], which formed the [[Mitochondrion|mitochondria]]. A second episode of symbiogenesis with a [[Cyanobacteria|cyanobacterium]] created the plants, with [[chloroplast]]s. [56] => [57] => Eukaryotic cells contain [[organelle|membrane-bound organelles]] such as the [[cell nucleus|nucleus]], the [[endoplasmic reticulum]], and the [[Golgi apparatus]]. Eukaryotes may be either [[Unicellular organism|unicellular]] or [[Multicellular organism|multicellular]]. In comparison, prokaryotes are typically unicellular. Unicellular eukaryotes are sometimes called [[protist]]s. Eukaryotes can reproduce both [[asexual reproduction|asexually]] through [[mitosis]] and [[Sexual reproduction|sexually]] through [[meiosis]] and [[gamete]] fusion ([[fertilization]]). [58] => {{TOC limit|3}} [59] => [60] => == Diversity == [61] => [62] => {{further|Organism}} [63] => [64] => Eukaryotes are [[organism]]s that range from microscopic single [[Cell (biology)|cell]]s, such as [[picozoa]]ns under 3 micrometres across,{{cite journal |last1=Seenivasan |first1=Ramkumar |last2=Sausen |first2=Nicole |last3=Medlin |first3=Linda K. |last4=Melkonian |first4=Michael |name-list-style=vanc |title=Picomonas judraskeda Gen. Et Sp. Nov.: The First Identified Member of the Picozoa Phylum Nov., a Widespread Group of Picoeukaryotes, Formerly Known as 'Picobiliphytes' |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=8 |issue=3 |date=26 March 2013 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0059565 |page=e59565|pmid=23555709 |pmc=3608682 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...859565S |doi-access=free }} to [[animal]]s like the [[blue whale]], weighing up to 190 [[tonne]]s and measuring up to {{convert|33.6|m}} long,{{cite book |last=Wood |first=Gerald |name-list-style=vanc |title=The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-85112-235-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan00wood |publisher=Enfield, Middlesex : Guinness Superlatives }} or [[plant]]s like the [[Sequoia sempervirens|coast redwood]], up to {{convert|120|m}} tall.{{cite web |url=http://www.conifers.org/cu/Sequoia.php |title=Sequoia sempervirens |work=The Gymnosperm Database |editor=Earle CJ |date=2017 |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-date=2016-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401041103/http://www.conifers.org/cu/Sequoia.php |url-status=live }} Many eukaryotes are unicellular; the informal grouping called [[protist]]s includes many of these, with some multicellular forms like the [[Macrocystis|giant kelp]] up to {{convert|200|ft}} long.{{cite book |last1=van den Hoek |first1=C. |last2=Mann |first2=D.G. |last3=Jahns |first3=H.M. |name-list-style=vanc |year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuUoiFesSHMC |title=Algae An Introduction to Phycology |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-30419-9 |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210172546/https://books.google.com/books?id=xuUoiFesSHMC |url-status=live }} The multicellular eukaryotes include the animals, plants, and [[Fungus|fungi]], but again, these groups too contain many unicellular [[species]]. Eukaryotic cells are typically much larger than those of [[prokaryote]]s—the [[bacteria]] and the [[archaea]]—having a volume of around 10,000 times greater.{{cite book |last=DeRennaux |first=B. |name-list-style=vanc |title=Encyclopedia of Biodiversity |chapter=Eukaryotes, Origin of |publisher=Elsevier |year=2001 |volume=2 |doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-384719-5.00174-x |pages=329–332|isbn=9780123847201 }}{{cite journal |title=Deep-sea microorganisms and the origin of the eukaryotic cell |url=http://protistology.jp/journal/jjp47/JJP47YAMAGUCHI.pdf |vauthors=Yamaguchi M, Worman CO |journal=Japanese Journal of Protozoology |volume=47 |number=1,2| date=2014 |pages=29–48 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809103456/http://protistology.jp/journal/jjp47/JJP47YAMAGUCHI.pdf|archive-date=9 August 2017 |url-status=dead}} Eukaryotes represent a small minority of the number of [[organism]]s, but, as many of them are much larger, their collective global [[biomass (ecology)|biomass]] (468 gigatons) is far larger than that of prokaryotes (77 gigatons), with plants alone accounting for over 81% of the total biomass of [[Earth]].{{Cite journal |last1=Bar-On |first1=Yinon M. |last2=Phillips |first2=Rob |last3=Milo |first3=Ron |date=2018-05-17 |df=dmy-all |title=The biomass distribution on Earth |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=115 |issue=25 |pages=6506–6511 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1711842115 |issn=0027-8424 |pmid=29784790 |pmc=6016768|bibcode=2018PNAS..115.6506B |doi-access=free }} [65] => [66] => [67] => File:Gram-negative Bacteria and Paramecium forming cyst.jpg|[[Prokaryote]]s (small cylindrical cells, [[bacteria]], on left) and a single-celled eukaryote, ''[[Paramecium]]'' [68] => File:California Redwood National Park (216450575).jpeg|[[Sequoia sempervirens|Coast redwood]] [69] => File:Anim1754 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library (rotated).jpg|[[Blue whale]] [70] => [71] => [72] => The eukaryotes are a diverse lineage, consisting mainly of [[Microorganism|microscopic organisms]]. Multicellularity in some form has [[evolved independently]] at least 25 times within the eukaryotes.{{cite journal |last1=Grosberg |first1=RK |last2=Strathmann |first2=RR |name-list-style=vanc |year=2007 |title=The evolution of multicellularity: A minor major transition? |journal=[[Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst]] |volume=38 |pages=621–654 |doi=10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102403.114735 |url=https://grosberglab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/453/2017/05/2007-Grosberg-R.-K.-and-R.-R.-Strathmann.pdf |access-date=8 April 2023 |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314222721/https://grosberglab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/453/2017/05/2007-Grosberg-R.-K.-and-R.-R.-Strathmann.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Parfrey |first1=L.W. |last2=Lahr |first2=D.J.G. |name-list-style=vanc |year=2013 |title=Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes |journal=BioEssays |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=339–347 |doi=10.1002/bies.201200143 |pmid=23315654 |s2cid=13872783 |url=http://www.producao.usp.br/bitstream/handle/BDPI/45022/339_ftp.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=8 April 2023 |archive-date=25 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725235332/http://www.producao.usp.br/bitstream/handle/BDPI/45022/339_ftp.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live }} Complex multicellular organisms, not counting the aggregation of [[Amoeba (genus)|amoebae]] to form [[slime mold]]s, have evolved within only six eukaryotic lineages: [[animals]], [[fungi#Phylogeny|symbiomycotan fungi]], [[brown algae]], [[red algae]], [[green algae]], and [[land plant]]s.{{cite journal |last1=Popper |first1=Zoë A. |last2=Michel |first2=Gurvan |last3=Hervé |first3=Cécile |last4=Domozych |first4=David S. |last5=Willats |first5=William G.T. |last6=Tuohy |first6=Maria G. |last7=Kloareg |first7=Bernard |last8=Stengel |first8=Dagmar B. |name-list-style=vanc |year=2011 |title=Evolution and diversity of plant cell walls: From algae to flowering plants |journal=Annual Review of Plant Biology |volume=62 |pages=567–590 |pmid=21351878 |hdl=10379/6762 |hdl-access=free |s2cid=11961888 |doi=10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103809}} Eukaryotes are grouped by genomic similarities, so that groups often lack visible shared characteristics.{{cite journal |last1=Burki |first1=Fabien |last2=Roger |first2=Andrew J. |last3=Brown |first3=Matthew W. |last4=Simpson |first4=Alastair G.B. |name-list-style=vanc |title=The New Tree of Eukaryotes |journal=Trends in Ecology & Evolution |publisher=Elsevier BV |volume=35 |issue=1 |year=2020 |issn=0169-5347 |doi=10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.008 |pages=43–55|pmid=31606140 |s2cid=204545629 |doi-access=free |url=https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1387649/FULLTEXT01 }} [73] => [74] => == Distinguishing features == [75] => [76] => {{further|Cell (biology)#Eukaryotic cells}} [77] => [78] => === Nucleus === [79] => [80] => The defining feature of eukaryotes is that [[Cell (biology)#Eukaryotic cells|their cells]] have [[nucleus (cell)|nuclei]]. This gives them their name, from the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[wikt:εὖ|εὖ]] (''eu'', "well" or "good") and [[wikt:κάρυον|κάρυον]] (''karyon'', "nut" or "kernel", here meaning "nucleus").{{OEtymD|eukaryotic}} Eukaryotic cells have a variety of internal membrane-bound structures, called [[organelle]]s, and a [[cytoskeleton]] which defines the cell's organization and shape. The nucleus stores the cell's [[DNA]], which is divided into linear bundles called [[chromosome]]s;{{Cite journal |last1=Bonev |first1=B |last2=Cavalli |first2=G |name-list-style=vanc |date=14 October 2016 |title=Organization and function of the 3D genome |journal=Nature Reviews Genetics |volume=17 |issue=11 |pages=661–678 |doi=10.1038/nrg.2016.112 |pmid=27739532 |hdl=2027.42/151884 |s2cid=31259189 |hdl-access=free}} these are separated into two matching sets by a [[spindle apparatus|microtubular spindle]] during nuclear division, in the distinctively eukaryotic process of [[mitosis]].{{Cite web |title=Chromosome Segregation: The Role of Centromeres |last=O'Connor |first=Clare |work=Nature Education |date= 2008|access-date=18 February 2024 |url= https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/chromosome-segregation-in-mitosis-the-role-of-242/ |quote=eukar }} [81] => [82] => === Biochemistry === [83] => [84] => Eukaryotes differ from prokaryotes in multiple ways, with unique biochemical pathways such as [[sterane]] synthesis. The eukaryotic signature [[protein]]s have no homology to proteins in other domains of life, but appear to be universal among eukaryotes. They include the proteins of the cytoskeleton, the complex [[Transcription (biology)|transcription]] machinery, the membrane-sorting systems, the [[nuclear pore]], and some [[enzyme]]s in the biochemical pathways.{{cite journal |vauthors=Hartman H, Fedorov A |title=The origin of the eukaryotic cell: a genomic investigation |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=1420–5 |date=February 2002 |pmid=11805300 |pmc=122206 |doi=10.1073/pnas.032658599 |bibcode=2002PNAS...99.1420H |doi-access=free }} [85] => [86] => === Internal membranes === [87] => [88] => {{further|Endomembrane system}} [89] => [90] => {{multiple image [91] => | image1 = Prokaryote cell.svg [92] => | width1 = 50 [93] => | caption1 = [[Prokaryote]], to same scale [94] => | image2 = Endomembrane system diagram en (edit).svg [95] => | width2 = 300 [96] => | caption2 = Eukaryotic cell with [[endomembrane system]] [97] => | footer = Eukaryotic cells are some 10,000 times larger than prokaryotic cells by volume, and contain [[membrane-bound organelle]]s. [98] => }} [99] => [100] => Eukaryote cells include a variety of membrane-bound structures, together forming the [[endomembrane system]].{{cite book |vauthors=Linka M, Weber AP |chapter=Evolutionary Integration of Chloroplast Metabolism with the Metabolic Networks of the Cells |veditors=Burnap RL, Vermaas WF |title=Functional Genomics and Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems |publisher=Springer |year=2011 |isbn=978-94-007-1533-2 |page=215 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfzEgaLibuwC&pg=PA215 |access-date=27 October 2015 |archive-date=29 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529130011/https://books.google.com/books?id=WfzEgaLibuwC&pg=PA215 |url-status=live }} Simple compartments, called [[vesicle (biology)|vesicles]] and [[vacuole]]s, can form by budding off other membranes. Many cells ingest food and other materials through a process of [[endocytosis]], where the outer membrane [[Invagination|invaginates]] and then pinches off to form a vesicle.{{cite book| vauthors=Marsh M | title=Endocytosis| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2001| page=vii| isbn=978-0-19-963851-2}} Some cell products can leave in a vesicle through [[exocytosis]].{{Cite journal |last1=Stalder |first1=Danièle |last2=Gershlick |first2=David C. |name-list-style=vanc |date=November 2020|title=Direct trafficking pathways from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane |journal=Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology |volume=107 |pages=112–125 |doi=10.1016/j.semcdb.2020.04.001 |pmc=7152905 |pmid=32317144}} [101] => [102] => The nucleus is surrounded by a double membrane known as the [[nuclear envelope]], with [[nuclear pore]]s that allow material to move in and out.{{cite journal | vauthors=Hetzer MW | title=The nuclear envelope | journal=Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology | volume=2 | issue=3 | pages=a000539 | date=March 2010 | pmid=20300205 | pmc=2829960 | doi=10.1101/cshperspect.a000539 }} Various tube- and sheet-like extensions of the nuclear membrane form the [[endoplasmic reticulum]], which is involved in [[protein transport]] and maturation. It includes the rough endoplasmic reticulum, covered in [[ribosome]]s which synthesize proteins; these enter the interior space or lumen. Subsequently, they generally enter vesicles, which bud off from the smooth endoplasmic reticulum.{{cite web |title=Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough and Smooth) |url=http://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/endoplasmic-reticulum-rough-and-smooth/ |publisher=British Society for Cell Biology |access-date=12 November 2017 |archive-date=24 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324055727/https://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/endoplasmic-reticulum-rough-and-smooth/ |url-status=live }} In most eukaryotes, these protein-carrying vesicles are released and further modified in stacks of flattened vesicles ([[cisterna]]e), the [[Golgi apparatus]].{{cite web |title=Golgi Apparatus |url=http://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/golgi-apparatus/ |publisher=British Society for Cell Biology |access-date=12 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113060218/http://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/golgi-apparatus/ |archive-date=13 November 2017 |url-status=dead }} [103] => [104] => Vesicles may be specialized; for instance, [[lysosome]]s contain [[digestive enzyme]]s that break down [[biomolecule]]s in the cytoplasm.{{cite web |title=Lysosome |url=http://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/lysosome/ |publisher=British Society for Cell Biology |access-date=12 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113060214/http://bscb.org/learning-resources/softcell-e-learning/lysosome/ |archive-date=13 November 2017 |url-status=dead }} [105] => [106] => === Mitochondria === [107] => [108] => {{main |Mitochondrion}} [109] => [110] => [[File:Mitochondrion structure.svg |thumb |upright=1.4 |[[Mitochondrion|Mitochondria]] are essentially universal in the eukaryotes, and with their own [[DNA]] somewhat resemble prokaryotic cells. ]] [111] => [112] => [[Mitochondrion|Mitochondria]] are organelles in eukaryotic cells. The mitochondrion is commonly called "the powerhouse of the cell",{{cite journal |vauthors=Saygin D, Tabib T, Bittar HE, Valenzi E, Sembrat J, Chan SY, Rojas M, Lafyatis R |display-authors=3 |title=Transcriptional profiling of lung cell populations in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension |journal=Pulmonary Circulation |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=131–144 |date=July 1957 |pmid=32166015 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0757-131 |pmc=7052475 |bibcode=1957SciAm.197a.131S }} for its function providing energy by oxidising sugars or fats to produce the energy-storing molecule [[adenosine triphosphate|ATP]].{{cite book | vauthors=Voet D, Voet JC, Pratt CW |name-list-style=vanc |title=Fundamentals of Biochemistry |edition=2nd |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=2006 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofbi00voet_0/page/547 547, 556] |isbn=978-0471214953 |url=https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofbi00voet_0/page/547 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2006-05/1146679455.Ev.r.html |title=Re: Are there eukaryotic cells without mitochondria? |date=1 May 2006 |work=madsci.org |vauthors=Mack S |access-date=24 April 2014 |archive-date=24 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424224700/http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2006-05/1146679455.Ev.r.html |url-status=live }} Mitochondria have two surrounding [[Mitochondrion#Structure|membranes]], each a [[Lipid bilayer|phospholipid bilayer]]; the [[Inner mitochondrial membrane|inner]] of which is folded into invaginations called [[cristae]] where [[aerobic respiration]] takes place.{{cite journal |last1=Zick |first1=M |last2=Rabl |first2=R |last3=Reichert |first3=AS |name-list-style=vanc |title=Cristae formation-linking ultrastructure and function of mitochondria. |journal=Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research |date=January 2009 |volume=1793 |issue=1 |pages=5–19 |pmid=18620004 |doi=10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.06.013 |doi-access=}} [113] => [114] => Mitochondria contain [[Mitochondrial DNA|their own DNA]], which has close structural similarities to [[bacterial DNA]], from which it originated, and which encodes [[rRNA]] and [[tRNA]] genes that produce RNA which is closer in structure to bacterial RNA than to eukaryote RNA.{{cite book |vauthors=Watson J, Hopkins N, Roberts J, Steitz JA, Weiner A |title=Molecular Biology of the Gene |date=1988 |publisher=The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. |location=Menlo Park, California |isbn=978-0-8053-9614-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/molecularbiology0004unse/page/1154 1154] |edition=Fourth |chapter=28: The Origins of Life |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/molecularbiology0004unse/page/1154 }} [115] => [116] => Some eukaryotes, such as the [[metamonad]]s ''[[Giardia]]'' and ''[[Trichomonas]]'', and the amoebozoan ''[[Pelomyxa]]'', appear to lack mitochondria, but all contain mitochondrion-derived organelles, like [[hydrogenosome]]s or [[mitosome]]s, having lost their mitochondria secondarily. They obtain energy by enzymatic action in the cytoplasm.{{cite web |url=http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-eukaryote-found-lack-mitochondria |title=Scientists Shocked To Discover Eukaryote With NO Mitochondria |date=13 May 2016 |vauthors=Davis JL |website=IFL Science |access-date=2016-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217214255/https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-eukaryote-found-lack-mitochondria/ |archive-date=17 February 2019 |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Karnkowska A, Vacek V, Zubáčová Z, Treitli SC, Petrželková R, Eme L, Novák L, Žárský V, Barlow LD, Herman EK, Soukal P, Hroudová M, Doležal P, Stairs CW, Roger AJ, Eliáš M, Dacks JB, Vlček Č, Hampl V |display-authors=3 |title=A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=10 |pages=1274–1284 |date=May 2016 |pmid=27185558 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.053 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016CBio...26.1274K }} [117] => [118] => === Plastids === [119] => [120] => {{main|Plastid}} [121] => [122] => [[File:Chloroplast II.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|The most common type of [[plastid]] is the [[chloroplast]], which contains [[chlorophyll]] and produces organic compounds by [[photosynthesis]]. ]] [123] => [124] => Plants and various groups of [[algae]] have [[plastid]]s as well as mitochondria. Plastids, like mitochondria, have [[Chloroplast DNA|their own DNA]] and are developed from [[endosymbionts]], in this case [[cyanobacteria]]. They usually take the form of [[chloroplast]]s which, like cyanobacteria, contain [[chlorophyll]] and produce organic compounds (such as [[glucose]]) through [[photosynthesis]]. Others are involved in storing food. Although plastids probably had a single origin, not all plastid-containing groups are closely related. Instead, some eukaryotes have obtained them from others through [[secondary endosymbiosis]] or ingestion.{{cite book | vauthors=Sato N |year=2006 |pages= 75–102 |title=The Structure and Function of Plastids |volume=23 |veditors=Wise RR, Hoober JK |publisher= Springer Netherlands|chapter=Origin and Evolution of Plastids: Genomic View on the Unification and Diversity of Plastids |isbn=978-1-4020-4060-3 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-4061-0_4 |series=Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration}} The capture and sequestering of photosynthetic cells and chloroplasts, [[kleptoplasty]], occurs in many types of modern eukaryotic organisms.{{cite journal |vauthors=Minnhagen S, Carvalho WF, Salomon PS, Janson S |title=Chloroplast DNA content in Dinophysis (Dinophyceae) from different cell cycle stages is consistent with kleptoplasty |journal=Environ. Microbiol. |volume=10 |issue=9 |pages=2411–7 |date=September 2008 |pmid=18518896 |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01666.x |bibcode=2008EnvMi..10.2411M }}{{cite journal | vauthors=Bodył A | s2cid=24613863 | title=Did some red alga-derived plastids evolve via kleptoplastidy? A hypothesis | journal=Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | volume=93 | issue=1 | pages=201–222 | date=February 2018 | pmid=28544184 | doi=10.1111/brv.12340 }} [125] => [126] => ===Cytoskeletal structures=== [127] => [128] => {{main|Cytoskeleton}} [129] => [130] => [[File:FluorescentCells.jpg|thumb|The cytoskeleton. [[Actin filaments]] are shown in red, [[microtubules]] in green. (The nucleus is in blue.) ]] [131] => [132] => The [[cytoskeleton]] provides stiffening structure and points of [133] => attachment for motor structures that enable the cell to move, change shape, or transport materials. The motor structures are [[microfilament]]s of [[actin]] and [[actin-binding protein]]s, including α-[[actinin]], [[fimbrin]], and [[filamin]] are present in submembranous [[Cell cortex|cortical layers]] and bundles. [[Motor protein]]s of microtubules, [[dynein]] and [[kinesin]], and [[myosin]] of actin filaments, provide dynamic character of the network.{{Cite book |chapter=Molecular Motors |title=Molecular Biology of the Cell |edition=4th |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26888/ |date=2002-01-01 |first1=Bruce |last1=Alberts |first2=Alexander |last2=Johnson |first3=Julian |last3=Lewis |first4=Martin |last4=Raff |first5=Keith |last5=Roberts |first6=Peter |last6=Walter |name-list-style=vanc |publisher=Garland Science |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8153-3218-3 |access-date=6 April 2023 |archive-date=8 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308094109/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26888/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Sweeney HL, Holzbaur EL |title=Motor Proteins |journal=Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages= a021931|date=May 2018 |pmid=29716949 |pmc=5932582 |doi=10.1101/cshperspect.a021931 |url=}} [134] => [135] => Many eukaryotes have long slender motile cytoplasmic projections, called [[flagellum|flagella]], or multiple shorter structures called [[cilium|cilia]]. [[Undulipodium|These organelles]] are variously involved in movement, feeding, and sensation. They are composed mainly of [[tubulin]], and are entirely distinct from prokaryotic flagella. They are supported by a bundle of [[microtubule]]s arising from a [[centriole]], characteristically arranged as nine doublets surrounding two singlets. Flagella may have hairs ([[mastigoneme]]s), as in many [[Stramenopile]]s. Their interior is continuous with the cell's [[cytoplasm]].{{cite journal | vauthors=Bardy SL, Ng SY, Jarrell KF | title=Prokaryotic motility structures | journal=Microbiology | volume=149 | issue=Pt 2 | pages=295–304 | date=February 2003 | pmid=12624192 | doi=10.1099/mic.0.25948-0 | doi-access=free }}{{cite journal | vauthors=Silflow CD, Lefebvre PA | title=Assembly and motility of eukaryotic cilia and flagella. Lessons from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | journal=Plant Physiology | volume=127 | issue=4 | pages=1500–7 | date=December 2001 | pmid=11743094 | pmc=1540183 | doi=10.1104/pp.010807 }} [136] => [137] => Centrioles are often present, even in cells and groups that do not have flagella, but [[conifer]]s and [[flowering plant]]s have neither. They generally occur in groups that give rise to various microtubular roots. These form a primary component of the cytoskeleton, and are often assembled over the course of several cell divisions, with one flagellum retained from the parent and the other derived from it. Centrioles produce the spindle during nuclear division.{{cite book |vauthors=Vorobjev IA, Nadezhdina ES |title=The centrosome and its role in the organization of microtubules |volume=106 |pages=227–293 |year=1987 |pmid=3294718 |doi=10.1016/S0074-7696(08)61714-3 |isbn=978-0-12-364506-7 |series=International Review of Cytology }} [138] => [139] => === Cell wall === [140] => [141] => {{main|Cell wall}} [142] => [143] => The cells of plants, algae, fungi and most [[Chromalveolata|chromalveolates]], but not animals, are surrounded by a cell wall. This is a layer outside the [[cell membrane]], providing the cell with structural support, protection, and a filtering mechanism. The cell wall also prevents [[cytolysis|over-expansion]] when water enters the cell.{{cite book | vauthors=Howland JL | year=2000 | title=The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life | pages=69–71 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=978-0-19-511183-5}} [144] => [145] => The major [[polysaccharides]] making up the primary cell wall of [[land plants]] are [[cellulose]], [[hemicellulose]], and [[pectin]]. The cellulose [[microfibril]]s are linked together with hemicellulose, embedded in a pectin matrix. The most common hemicellulose in the primary cell wall is [[xyloglucan]].{{cite journal | vauthors=Fry SC |title=The Structure and Functions of Xyloglucan |journal=Journal of Experimental Botany |volume=40 |issue=1 |year=1989 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1093/jxb/40.1.1}} [146] => [147] => === Sexual reproduction === [148] => [149] => {{further|Evolution of sexual reproduction}} [150] => [151] => [[File:Sexual cycle N-2N.svg|thumb|[[Sexual reproduction]] requires a [[biological life cycle|life cycle]] that alternates between a [[haploid]] phase, with one copy of each [[chromosome]] in the cell, and a [[diploid]] phase, with two copies. In eukaryotes, haploid [[gamete]]s are produced by [[meiosis]]; two gametes fuse to form a diploid [[zygote]].]] [152] => [153] => Eukaryotes have a life cycle that involves [[sexual reproduction]], alternating between a [[haploid]] phase, where only one copy of each chromosome is present in each cell, and a [[diploid]] phase, with two copies of each chromosome in each cell. The diploid phase is formed by fusion of two haploid gametes, such as [[Egg cell|eggs]] and [[spermatozoa]], to form a [[zygote]]; this may grow into a body, with its cells dividing by [[mitosis]], and at some stage produce haploid gametes through [[meiosis]], a division that reduces the number of chromosomes and creates [[genetic variability]].{{cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Matthew B. |name-list-style=vanc |title=Population genetics |url=https://archive.org/details/populationgeneti00hami |url-access=limited |year=2009 |publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell]] |isbn=978-1-4051-3277-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/populationgeneti00hami/page/n69 55]}} There is considerable variation in this pattern. Plants have both [[alternation of generations|haploid and diploid multicellular phases]].{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=TN |last2=Kerp |first2=H |last3=Hass |first3=H |name-list-style=vanc |year=2005 |title=Life history biology of early land plants: Deciphering the gametophyte phase |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=102 |issue=16 |pages=5892–5897 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0501985102 |pmid=15809414 |pmc=556298 |doi-access=free }} Eukaryotes have lower metabolic rates and longer generation times than prokaryotes, because they are larger and therefore have a smaller surface area to volume ratio.{{cite journal |vauthors=Lane N |authorlink=Nick Lane |title=Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide |journal=Biology Direct |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=35 |date=June 2011 |pmid=21714941 |pmc=3152533 |doi=10.1186/1745-6150-6-35 |doi-access=free }} [154] => [155] => The [[evolution of sexual reproduction]] may be a primordial characteristic of eukaryotes. Based on a phylogenetic analysis, Dacks and [[Andrew J. Roger|Roger]] have proposed that facultative sex was present in the group's common ancestor.{{cite journal |vauthors=Dacks J, Roger AJ |s2cid=9441768 |title=The first sexual lineage and the relevance of facultative sex |journal=Journal of Molecular Evolution |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=779–783 |date=June 1999 |pmid=10229582 |doi=10.1007/PL00013156 |bibcode=1999JMolE..48..779D }} A core set of genes that function in meiosis is present in both ''[[Trichomonas vaginalis]]'' and ''[[Giardia intestinalis]]'', two organisms previously thought to be asexual.{{cite journal |vauthors=Ramesh MA, Malik SB, Logsdon JM |title=A phylogenomic inventory of meiotic genes; evidence for sex in Giardia and an early eukaryotic origin of meiosis |journal=Current Biology |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=185–191 |date=January 2005 |pmid=15668177 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2005.01.003 |s2cid=17013247 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2005CBio...15..185R }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Malik SB, Pightling AW, Stefaniak LM, Schurko AM, Logsdon JM |title=An expanded inventory of conserved meiotic genes provides evidence for sex in Trichomonas vaginalis |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=3 |issue=8 |pages=e2879 |date=August 2007 |pmid=18663385 |pmc=2488364 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0002879 |veditors=Hahn MW |bibcode=2008PLoSO...3.2879M |doi-access=free }} Since these two species are descendants of lineages that diverged early from the eukaryotic evolutionary tree, core meiotic genes, and hence sex, were likely present in the common ancestor of eukaryotes. Species once thought to be asexual, such as ''[[Leishmania]]'' parasites, have a sexual cycle.{{cite journal |vauthors=Akopyants NS, Kimblin N, Secundino N, Patrick R, Peters N, Lawyer P, Dobson DE, Beverley SM, Sacks DL |title=Demonstration of genetic exchange during cyclical development of Leishmania in the sand fly vector |journal=Science |volume=324 |issue=5924 |pages=265–268 |date=April 2009 |pmid=19359589 |pmc=2729066 |doi=10.1126/science.1169464 |bibcode=2009Sci...324..265A }} Amoebae, previously regarded as asexual, are anciently sexual; present-day asexual groups likely arose recently.{{cite journal |vauthors=Lahr DJ, Parfrey LW, Mitchell EA, Katz LA, Lara E |title=The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms |journal=Proceedings: Biological Sciences |volume=278 |issue=1715 |pages=2081–2090 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21429931 |pmc=3107637 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2011.0289 }} [156] => [157] => == Evolution == [158] => [159] => [[File:Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity - Journal.pbio.3002395.g001.tif|thumb|Tree of eukaryotes showing major subgroups and thumbnail diagrams of representative members of each group. Updated synthesis based on recent (as of 2023) phylogenomic reconstructions.{{Cite Q|Q123558544|doi-access=free}}]] [160] => [161] => === History of classification === [162] => [163] => {{further|History of taxonomy}} [164] => [165] => In [[Ancient history|antiquity]], the two lineages of [[animal]]s and [[plant]]s were recognized by [[Aristotle]] and [[Theophrastus]]. The lineages were given the [[taxonomic rank]] of [[Kingdom (biology)|Kingdom]] by [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] in the 18th century. Though he included the [[fungi]] with plants with some reservations, it was later realized that they are quite distinct and warrant a separate kingdom.{{cite journal |vauthors=Moore RT |year=1980 |title=Taxonomic proposals for the classification of marine yeasts and other yeast-like fungi including the smuts |journal=Botanica Marina |volume=23 |pages=361–373}} The various single-cell eukaryotes were originally placed with plants or animals when they became known. In 1818, the German biologist [[Georg A. Goldfuss]] coined the word ''[[protozoa]]'' to refer to organisms such as [[ciliate]]s,{{cite journal |author=Goldfuß |title=Ueber die Classification der Zoophyten |journal=Isis, Oder, Encyclopädische Zeitung von Oken |date=1818 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=1008–1019 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47614#page/530/mode/1up |trans-title=On the classification of zoophytes |language=de |access-date=15 March 2019 |archive-date=24 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324105702/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47614#page/530/mode/1up |url-status=live }} From p. 1008: ''"Erste Klasse. Urthiere. Protozoa."'' (First class. Primordial animals. Protozoa.) [Note: each column of each page of this journal is numbered; there are two columns per page.] and this group was expanded until [[Ernst Haeckel]] made it a kingdom encompassing all single-celled eukaryotes, the [[Protista]], in 1866.{{cite journal |vauthors=Scamardella JM |title=Not plants or animals: a brief history of the origin of Kingdoms Protozoa, Protista and Protoctista |year=1999 |journal=[[International Microbiology]] |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=207–221 |pmid=10943416 |url=http://www.im.microbios.org/08december99/03%20Scamardella.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614000656/http://www.im.microbios.org/08december99/03%20Scamardella.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2011 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Rothschild LJ |title=Protozoa, Protista, Protoctista: what's in a name? |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=277–305 |year=1989 |pmid=11542176 |doi=10.1007/BF00139515 |s2cid=32462158 |authorlink=Lynn J. Rothschild |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1232387 |access-date=4 February 2020 |archive-date=4 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204233203/https://zenodo.org/record/1232387 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Whittaker RH |title=New concepts of kingdoms or organisms. Evolutionary relations are better represented by new classifications than by the traditional two kingdoms |journal=Science |volume=163 |issue=3863 |pages=150–60 |date=January 1969 |pmid=5762760 |doi=10.1126/science.163.3863.150 |citeseerx=10.1.1.403.5430 |bibcode=1969Sci...163..150W }} The eukaryotes thus came to be seen as four kingdoms: [166] => [167] => * Kingdom [[Protista]] [168] => * Kingdom [[Plantae]] [169] => * Kingdom [[Fungi]] [170] => * Kingdom [[Animalia]] [171] => [172] => The protists were at that time thought to be "primitive forms", and thus an [[evolutionary grade]], united by their primitive unicellular nature. Understanding of the oldest branchings in the [[tree of life (biology)|tree of life]] only developed substantially with [[Nucleic acid sequence|DNA sequencing]], leading to a system of [[domain (biology)|domains]] rather than kingdoms as top level rank being put forward by [[Carl Woese]], [[Otto Kandler]], and [[Mark Wheelis]] in 1990, uniting all the eukaryote kingdoms in the domain "Eucarya", stating, however, that {{"'}}eukaryotes' will continue to be an acceptable common synonym".{{cite journal |vauthors=Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML |author1-link=Carl Woese |author2-link=Otto Kandler |author3-link=Mark Wheelis |title=Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=87 |issue=12 |pages=4576–4579 |date=June 1990 |pmid=2112744 |pmc=54159 |doi=10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576 |bibcode=1990PNAS...87.4576W |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last=Knoll |first=Andrew H. |name-list-style=vanc |authorlink=Andrew H. Knoll |title=The Early Evolution of Eukaryotes: A Geological Perspective |journal=Science |volume=256 |issue=5057 |year=1992 |doi=10.1126/science.1585174 |pages=622–627 |pmid=1585174 |bibcode=1992Sci...256..622K |quote=Eucarya, or eukaryotes}} In 1996, the evolutionary biologist [[Lynn Margulis]] proposed to replace Kingdoms and Domains with "inclusive" names to create a "symbiosis-based phylogeny", giving the description "Eukarya (symbiosis-derived nucleated organisms)".{{cite journal |last=Margulis |first=Lynn |authorlink=Lynn Margulis |name-list-style=vanc |title=Archaeal-eubacterial mergers in the origin of Eukarya: phylogenetic classification of life |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=93 |issue=3 |date=6 February 1996 |doi=10.1073/pnas.93.3.1071 |pages=1071–1076 |pmid=8577716 |pmc=40032 |bibcode=1996PNAS...93.1071M |doi-access=free }} [173] => [174] => {{anchor|Phylogeny}} [175] => [176] => === Phylogeny === [177] => [178] => By 2014, a rough consensus started to emerge from the phylogenomic studies of the previous two decades.{{cite journal |vauthors=Burki F |title=The eukaryotic tree of life from a global phylogenomic perspective |journal=Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=a016147 |date=May 2014 |pmid=24789819 |doi=10.1101/cshperspect.a016147 |pmc=3996474 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Burki F, Kaplan M, Tikhonenkov DV, Zlatogursky V, Minh BQ, Radaykina LV, Smirnov A, Mylnikov AP, Keeling PJ |display-authors=3 |title=Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of Centrohelida, Haptophyta and Cryptista |journal=Proceedings: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1823 |pages=20152802 |date=January 2016 |pmid=26817772 |pmc=4795036 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2015.2802 }} The majority of eukaryotes can be placed in one of two large clades dubbed [[Amorphea]] (similar in composition to the [[unikont]] hypothesis) and the [[Diphoda]] (formerly bikonts), which includes plants and most algal lineages. A third major grouping, the [[Excavata]], has been abandoned as a formal group as it is [[paraphyletic]].{{cite journal |vauthors=Adl SM, Bass D, Lane CE, Lukeš J, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Agatha S, Berney C, Brown MW, Burki F, Cárdenas P, Čepička I, Chistyakova L, Del Campo J, Dunthorn M, Edvardsen B, Eglit Y, Guillou L, Hampl V, Heiss AA, Hoppenrath M, James TY, Karnkowska A, Karpov S, Kim E, Kolisko M, Kudryavtsev A, Lahr DJ, Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, Mann DG, Massana R, Mitchell EA, Morrow C, Park JS, Pawlowski JW, Powell MJ, Richter DJ, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Shimano S, Spiegel FW, Torruella G, Youssef N, Zlatogursky V, Zhang Q |display-authors=3 |title=Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes |journal=The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=4–119 |date=January 2019 |pmid=30257078 |pmc=6492006 |doi=10.1111/jeu.12691 }} The proposed phylogeny below includes only one group of excavates ([[Discoba]]),{{Cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Matthew W. |last2=Heiss |first2=Aaron A. |last3=Kamikawa |first3=Ryoma |last4=Inagaki |first4=Yuji |last5=Yabuki |first5=Akinori |last6=Tice |first6=Alexander K |last7=Shiratori |first7=Takashi |last8=Ishida |first8=Ken-Ichiro |last9=Hashimoto |first9=Tetsuo |last10=Simpson |first10=Alastair |last11=Roger |first11=Andrew |name-list-style=vanc |date=2018-01-19 |title=Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group|journal=Genome Biology and Evolution |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=427–433 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evy014 |pmc=5793813|pmid=29360967}} and incorporates the 2021 proposal that [[picozoa]]ns are close relatives of rhodophytes.{{cite journal |vauthors=Schön ME, Zlatogursky VV, Singh RP, Poirier C, Wilken S, Mathur V, Strassert JF, Pinhassi J, Worden AZ, Keeling PJ, Ettema TJ |display-authors=3 |title=Picozoa are archaeplastids without plastid |journal=Nature Communications |year=2021 |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=6651 |doi=10.1038/s41467-021-26918-0 |pmid=34789758 |pmc=8599508 |biorxiv=10.1101/2021.04.14.439778 |s2cid=233328713 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-189959 |access-date=20 December 2021 |archive-date=2 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202091441/https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1614928&dswid=-3028 |url-status=live }} The [[Provora]] are a group of microbial predators discovered in 2022.{{cite journal |vauthors=Tikhonenkov DV, Mikhailov KV, Gawryluk RM, Belyaev AO, Mathur V, Karpov SA, Zagumyonnyi DG, Borodina AS, Prokina KI, Mylnikov AP, Aleoshin VV, Keeling PJ |display-authors=3 |title=Microbial predators form a new supergroup of eukaryotes |journal=Nature |date=December 2022 |volume=612 |issue=7941 |pages=714–719 |pmid=36477531 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-05511-5 |bibcode=2022Natur.612..714T |s2cid=254436650 }} [179] => [180] => {{stem group kingdoms}} [181] => {{clear}} [182] => [183] => === Origin of eukaryotes === [184] => [185] => [186] => {{anchor|Eukaryogenesis|Origin of eukaryotes|Last common ancestor}} [187] => {{main|Eukaryogenesis}} [188] => [189] => [[File:Symbiogenesis 2 mergers.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|In the theory of [[symbiogenesis]], a merger of an [[archaea]]n and an aerobic bacterium created the eukaryotes, with aerobic [[Mitochondrion|mitochondria]]; a second merger added [[chloroplast]]s, creating the [[Viridiplantae|green plants]].]] [190] => [191] => The origin of the eukaryotic cell, or ''eukaryogenesis'', is a milestone in the evolution of life, since eukaryotes include all complex cells and almost all multicellular organisms. The [[last eukaryotic common ancestor]] (LECA) is the hypothetical origin of all living eukaryotes,{{cite journal |vauthors=Gabaldón T |title=Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell |journal=Annual Review of Microbiology |volume=75 |issue=1 |pages=631–647 |date=October 2021 |pmid=34343017 |doi=10.1146/annurev-micro-090817-062213 |s2cid=236916203 }} and was most likely a [[Population|biological population]], not a single individual.{{cite journal |vauthors=O'Malley MA, Leger MM, Wideman JG, Ruiz-Trillo I |title=Concepts of the last eukaryotic common ancestor |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=338–344 |date=March 2019 |pmid=30778187 |doi=10.1038/s41559-019-0796-3 |bibcode=2019NatEE...3..338O |hdl-access=free |s2cid=67790751 |hdl=10261/201794 }} The LECA is believed to have been a protist with a nucleus, at least one [[centriole]] and [[flagellum]], facultatively aerobic mitochondria, sex ([[meiosis]] and [[syngamy]]), a dormant [[cyst]] with a cell wall of [[chitin]] or [[cellulose]], and [[peroxisome]]s.{{cite journal |vauthors=Leander BS |title=Predatory protists |journal=Current Biology |volume=30 |issue=10 |pages=R510–R516 |date=May 2020 |pmid=32428491 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.052 |s2cid=218710816 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020CBio...30.R510L }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Strassert JF, Irisarri I, Williams TA, Burki F |title=A molecular timescale for eukaryote evolution with implications for the origin of red algal-derived plastids |journal=Nature Communications |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=1879 |date=March 2021 |pmid=33767194 |pmc=7994803 |doi=10.1038/s41467-021-22044-z |bibcode=2021NatCo..12.1879S |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Koumandou |first1=V. Lila |last2=Wickstead |first2=Bill |last3=Ginger |first3=Michael L. |last4=van der Giezen |first4=Mark |last5=Dacks |first5=Joel B. |last6=Field |first6=Mark C. |name-list-style=vanc |title=Molecular paleontology and complexity in the last eukaryotic common ancestor |journal=Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |volume=48 |issue=4 |year=2013 |doi=10.3109/10409238.2013.821444 |pages=373–396|pmid=23895660 |pmc=3791482 }} [192] => [193] => An [[Symbiogenesis|endosymbiotic union]] between a motile [[anaerobic organism|anaerobic]] archaean and an aerobic [[Alphaproteobacteria|alphaproteobacterium]] gave rise to the LECA and all eukaryotes, with [[mitochondrion|mitochondria]]. A second, much later endosymbiosis with a cyanobacterium gave rise to the ancestor of plants, with [[chloroplast]]s.{{cite book |vauthors=Latorre A, Durban A, Moya A, Pereto J |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3oFebknu1cC&pg=PA326 |chapter=The role of symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution |title=Origins and Evolution of Life: An astrobiological perspective |veditors=Gargaud M, López-Garcìa P, Martin H |year=2011 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=326–339 |isbn=978-0-521-76131-4 |access-date=27 August 2017 |archive-date=24 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324055723/https://books.google.com/books?id=m3oFebknu1cC&pg=PA326 |url-status=live }} [194] => [195] => The presence of eukaryotic biomarkers in archaea points towards an archaeal origin. The genomes of [[Asgard (archaea)|Asgard]] archaea have plenty of [[Eukaryotic signature protein]] genes, which play a crucial role in the development of the [[cytoskeleton]] and complex cellular structures characteristic of eukaryotes. In 2022, [[Cryo Electron Tomography|cryo-electron tomography]] demonstrated that Asgard archaea have a complex [[actin]]-based cytoskeleton, providing the first direct visual evidence of the archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes.{{cite journal |vauthors=Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Wollweber F, Ponce-Toledo RI, etal. |title=Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaean |journal=Nature |volume=613 |pages=332–339 |date=2023 |issue=7943 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-05550-y|pmid=36544020 |pmc=9834061 |bibcode=2023Natur.613..332R |hdl=20.500.11850/589210 |hdl-access=free }} [196] => [197] => === Fossils === [198] => [199] => The timing of the origin of eukaryotes is hard to determine but the discovery of ''Qingshania magnificia'', the earliest multicelluar eukaryote from North China which lived during 1.635 billion years ago, suggests that the crown group eukaryotes would have originated from the late [[Paleoproterozoic]] ([[Statherian]]); the earliest unequivocal unicellular eukaryotes which lived during approximately 1.65 billion years ago are also discovered from North China: ''Tappania plana'', ''Shuiyousphaeridium macroreticulatum'', ''Dictyosphaera macroreticulata'', ''Germinosphaera alveolata'', and ''Valeria lophostriata''.{{Cite journal|last1=Miao |first1=L. |last2=Yin |first2=Z. |last3=Knoll |first3=A. H. |last4=Qu |first4=Y. |last5=Zhu |first5=M. |title=1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China |year=2024 |journal=Science Advances |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=eadk3208 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.adk3208 |doi-access=free |pmid=38266082 |pmc=10807817 |bibcode=2024SciA...10K3208M }} [200] => [201] => Some [[acritarch]]s are known from at least 1.65 billion years ago, and a fossil, ''[[Grypania]]'', which may be an alga, is as much as 2.1 billion years old.{{cite journal |vauthors=Han TM, Runnegar B |title=Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old negaunee iron-formation, Michigan |journal=Science |volume=257 |issue=5067 |pages=232–5 |date=July 1992 |pmid=1631544 |doi=10.1126/science.1631544 |bibcode=1992Sci...257..232H |url=}}{{cite journal |vauthors=Knoll AH, Javaux EJ, Hewitt D, Cohen P |title=Eukaryotic organisms in Proterozoic oceans |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences |volume=361 |issue=1470 |pages=1023–1038 |date=June 2006 |pmid=16754612 |pmc=1578724 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2006.1843 }} The [[Incertae sedis|"problematic"]] fossil ''[[Diskagma]]'' has been found in [[paleosol]]s 2.2 billion years old.{{cite journal |vauthors=Retallack GJ, Krull ES, Thackray GD, Parkinson DH |title= Problematic urn-shaped fossils from a Paleoproterozoic (2.2 Ga) paleosol in South Africa. |journal=Precambrian Research |year=2013 |volume=235 |pages=71–87 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2013.05.015 |bibcode=2013PreR..235...71R }} [202] => [203] => [[File:Diskagma butonii.jpg|thumb|left|Reconstruction of the problematic ''[[Diskagma buttonii]]'', a terrestrial fossil less than 1mm high, from rocks around 2.2 billion years old]] [204] => [205] => Structures proposed to represent "large colonial organisms" have been found in the [[black shale]]s of the [[Palaeoproterozoic]] such as the [[Francevillian B Formation]], in [[Gabon]], dubbed the "[[Francevillian biota]]" which is dated at 2.1 billion years old.{{cite journal |vauthors=El Albani A, Bengtson S, Canfield DE, Bekker A, Macchiarelli R, Mazurier A, Hammarlund EU, Boulvais P, Dupuy JJ, Fontaine C, Fürsich FT, Gauthier-Lafaye F, Janvier P, Javaux E, Ossa FO, Pierson-Wickmann AC, Riboulleau A, Sardini P, Vachard D, Whitehouse M, Meunier A |display-authors=3 |s2cid=4331375 |title=Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago |journal=Nature |volume=466 |issue=7302 |pages=100–104 |date=July 2010 |pmid=20596019 |doi=10.1038/nature09166 |bibcode=2010Natur.466..100A }}{{cite journal |title=A search for life in Palaeoproterozoic marine sediments using Zn isotopes and geochemistry |last=El Albani |first=Abderrazak |journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters |year=2023 |volume=623 |page=118169 |doi=10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118169|bibcode=2023E&PSL.61218169E |s2cid=258360867 |doi-access=free |url=https://hal.science/hal-04095643/file/El%20Albani%20et%20al._EPSL_2023.pdf }} However, the status of these structures as fossils is contested, with other authors suggesting that they might represent [[pseudofossil]]s.{{cite journal | last1=Ossa Ossa | first1=Frantz | last2=Pons | first2=Marie-Laure | last3=Bekker | first3=Andrey | last4=Hofmann | first4=Axel | last5=Poulton | first5=Simon W. | last6=Andersen | first6=Morten B. | last7=Agangi | first7=Andrea | last8=Gregory | first8=Daniel | last9=Reinke | first9=Christian | last10=Steinhilber | first10=Bernd | last11=Marin-Carbonne | first11=Johanna | last12=Schoenberg | first12=Ronny | display-authors=5 | title=Zinc enrichment and isotopic fractionation in a marine habitat of the c. 2.1 Ga Francevillian Group: A signature of zinc utilization by eukaryotes? | journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters | volume=611 | date=2023 | doi=10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118147 | page=118147| doi-access=free | bibcode=2023E&PSL.61118147O | url=https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/197720/8/1-s2.0-S0012821X23001607-main.pdf }} The oldest fossils than can unambiguously be assigned to eukaryotes are from the Ruyang Group of China, dating to approximately 1.8-1.6 billion years ago.{{Cite journal |last1=Fakhraee |first1=Mojtaba |last2=Tarhan |first2=Lidya G. |last3=Reinhard |first3=Christopher T. |last4=Crowe |first4=Sean A. |last5=Lyons |first5=Timothy W. |last6=Planavsky |first6=Noah J. |date=May 2023 |title=Earth's surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |language=en |volume=240 |pages=104398 |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104398 |bibcode=2023ESRv..24004398F |s2cid=257761993 |doi-access=free }} Fossils that are clearly related to modern groups start appearing an estimated 1.2 billion years ago, in the form of [[red algae#Fossil record|red algae]], though recent work suggests the existence of fossilized [[filamentous algae]] in the [[Vindhya]] basin dating back perhaps to 1.6 to 1.7 billion years ago.{{cite journal |vauthors=Bengtson S, Belivanova V, Rasmussen B, Whitehouse M |title=The controversial "Cambrian" fossils of the Vindhyan are real but more than a billion years older |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=106 |issue=19 |pages=7729–7734 |date=May 2009 |pmid=19416859 |pmc=2683128 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0812460106 |bibcode=2009PNAS..106.7729B |doi-access=free }} [206] => [207] => The presence of [[sterane]]s, eukaryotic-specific [[Biomarker (petroleum)|biomarkers]], in [[Australia]]n [[shale]]s previously indicated that eukaryotes were present in these rocks dated at 2.7 billion years old,{{cite journal |vauthors=Brocks JJ, Logan GA, Buick R, Summons RE |title=Archean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes |journal=Science |volume=285 |issue=5430 |pages=1033–1036 |date=August 1999 |pmid=10446042 |doi=10.1126/science.285.5430.1033 |bibcode=1999Sci...285.1033B |citeseerx=10.1.1.516.9123 }}{{cite magazine |vauthors=Ward P |title=Mass extinctions: the microbes strike back |magazine=[[New Scientist]] |pages=40–43 |date=9 February 2008 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19726421.900-mass-extinctions-the-microbes-strike-back.html |authorlink=Peter Ward (paleontologist) |access-date=27 August 2017 |archive-date=8 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708222803/http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19726421.900-mass-extinctions-the-microbes-strike-back.html |url-status=live }} but these Archaean biomarkers have been rebutted as later contaminants.{{cite journal |vauthors=French KL, Hallmann C, Hope JM, Schoon PL, Zumberge JA, Hoshino Y, Peters CA, George SC, Love GD, Brocks JJ, Buick R, Summons RE |title=Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=112 |issue=19 |pages=5915–5920 |date=May 2015 |pmid=25918387 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1419563112 |pmc=4434754 |bibcode=2015PNAS..112.5915F |doi-access=free }} The oldest valid biomarker records are only around 800 million years old.{{cite journal |vauthors=Brocks JJ, Jarrett AJ, Sirantoine E, Hallmann C, Hoshino Y, Liyanage T |title=The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7669 |pages=578–581 |date=August 2017 |pmid=28813409 |doi=10.1038/nature23457 |s2cid=205258987 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..578B }} In contrast, a molecular clock analysis suggests the emergence of sterol biosynthesis as early as 2.3 billion years ago.{{cite journal |vauthors=Gold DA, Caron A, Fournier GP, Summons RE |title=Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen |journal=Nature |volume=543 |issue=7645 |pages=420–423 |date=March 2017 |pmid=28264195 |doi=10.1038/nature21412 |hdl-access=free |s2cid=205254122 |bibcode=2017Natur.543..420G |hdl=1721.1/128450 }} The nature of steranes as eukaryotic biomarkers is further complicated by the production of [[sterol]]s by some bacteria.{{cite journal |vauthors=Wei JH, Yin X, Welander PV |title=Sterol Synthesis in Diverse Bacteria |journal=Frontiers in Microbiology |volume=7 |pages=990 |date=2016-06-24 |pmid=27446030 |pmc=4919349 |doi=10.3389/fmicb.2016.00990 |doi-access=free |authorlink3=Paula V. Welander }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Hoshino Y, Gaucher EA |title=Evolution of bacterial steroid biosynthesis and its impact on eukaryogenesis |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=118 |issue=25 |pages=e2101276118 |date=June 2021 |pmid=34131078 |pmc=8237579 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2101276118 |bibcode=2021PNAS..11801276H |doi-access=free }} [208] => [209] => Whenever their origins, eukaryotes may not have become ecologically dominant until much later; a massive increase in the [[Abiogenesis#Zinc world|zinc composition]] of marine sediments {{Ma|800}} has been attributed to the rise of substantial populations of eukaryotes, which preferentially consume and incorporate [[zinc]] relative to prokaryotes, approximately a billion years after their origin (at the latest).{{cite journal |vauthors=Isson TT, Love GD, Dupont CL, Reinhard CT, Zumberge AJ, Asael D, Gueguen B, McCrow J, Gill BC, Owens J, Rainbird RH, Rooney AD, Zhao MY, Stueeken EE, Konhauser KO, John SG, Lyons TW, Planavsky NJ |display-authors=3 |title=Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes |journal=Geobiology |volume=16|issue=4|pages=341–352|date=June 2018 |pmid=29869832 |doi=10.1111/gbi.12289 |bibcode=2018Gbio...16..341I |doi-access=free }} [210] => [211] => == See also == [212] => [213] => * [[Eukaryote hybrid genome]] [214] => * [[List of sequenced eukaryotic genomes]] [215] => * ''[[Parakaryon myojinensis]]'' [216] => * [[Vault (organelle)]] [217] => [218] => == References == [219] => [220] => {{reflist|30em}} [221] => [222] => == External links == [223] => {{Wikispecies|Eukaryota}} [224] => [225] => * [http://www.tolweb.org/Eukaryotes/3 "Eukaryotes"] ([[Tree of Life Web Project]]) [226] => * {{EOL}} [227] => [228] => {{Eukaryota}} [229] => {{Life on Earth}} [230] => {{Organisms et al.}} [231] => {{Taxonbar|from=Q19088}} [232] => {{Authority control}} [233] => [234] => [[Category:Eukaryotes| ]] [235] => [[Category:Articles containing video clips]] [236] => [[Category:Domains (biology)|Eukaryote]] [237] => [[Category:Biology terminology]] [] => )
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Eukaryotes are complex organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. They are one of the three domains of life, along with Archaea and Bacteria.

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They are one of the three domains of life, along with Archaea and Bacteria. Eukaryotic cells are characterized by their compartmentalization, which allows for specialized functions and efficient organization of cellular processes. They can be single-celled or multicellular, and include protists, plants, animals, and fungi. The nucleus is a distinctive feature of eukaryotes, as it houses the organism's DNA. The DNA is organized into linear chromosomes and protected by a nuclear membrane. Eukaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles, such as mitochondria, responsible for energy production, and a complex endoplasmic reticulum for protein synthesis and lipid metabolism. Eukaryotes exhibit more diversity in terms of their size, complexity, and organization compared to prokaryotes, which lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. They are capable of various forms of reproduction, including sexual and asexual reproduction, and have evolved a wide range of adaptations to survive in different environments. The evolution of eukaryotes is believed to have occurred through endosymbiosis, where a prokaryotic cell was engulfed by another cell, leading to the development of new organelles within the host cell. This process played a crucial role in the emergence of mitochondria and plastids, such as chloroplasts in plants. Eukaryotes have had a significant impact on the history of life on Earth. They are responsible for the majority of the planet's diversity and ecological complexity. They have also played a pivotal role in shaping the planet's ecosystem through interactions with other organisms. Additionally, many eukaryotes are of great importance to human society, such as providing food, medicine, and ecosystem services. Overall, the eukaryotic domain encompasses a vast array of organisms with diverse characteristics and ecological roles. The Wikipedia page on eukaryotes provides a comprehensive overview of their structure, function, evolution, and significance in the natural world.

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