TY - JOUR
T1 - Origins of eukaryotic sexual reproduction
AU - Goodenough, Ursula
AU - Heitman, Joseph
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to all eukaryotes. Using the perspectives of molecular genetics and cell biology, we consider documented and hypothetical scenarios for the instantiation and evolution of meiosis, fertilization, sex determination, uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes, and speciation.
AB - Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to all eukaryotes. Using the perspectives of molecular genetics and cell biology, we consider documented and hypothetical scenarios for the instantiation and evolution of meiosis, fertilization, sex determination, uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes, and speciation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897671020&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1101/cshperspect.a016154
DO - 10.1101/cshperspect.a016154
M3 - Article
C2 - 24591519
AN - SCOPUS:84897671020
SN - 1943-0264
VL - 6
JO - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
JF - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
IS - 3
ER -