期刊
出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0359
关键词
major evolutionary transitions; public goods; evolutionary theory
资金
- NASA through National Astrobiology Institute
- John Templeton Foundation (JTF) [60579]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N018044/1]
- BBSRC [BB/N018044/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N018044/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Biological public goods are broadly shared within an ecosystem and readily available. They appear to be widespread and may have played important roles in the history of life on Earth. Of particular importance to events in the early history of life are the roles of public goods in the merging of genomes, protein domains and even cells. We suggest that public goods facilitated the origin of the eukaryotic cell, a classic major evolutionary transition. The recognition of genomic public goods challenges advocates of a direct graph view of phylogeny, and those who deny that any useful phylogenetic signal persists in modern genomes. Ecological spillovers generate public goods that provide new ecological opportunities. This article is part of the themed issue 'Re-conceptualizing the origins of life'.
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