nanosoliton
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Joined: Jan. 2003
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Nic writes:
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This page on spiroplasma:
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/spiroplasma/what.htm
...says that sprioplasmas are related to gram-positive bacteria, and have no cell wall, have a cytoskeleton and membranes with cholesterol. This all seems to go along fairly well with Cavalier-Smith's proposed scheme for the evolution of eukaryotes as something like:
gram-negative --> gram-positive --> early divergence from archaeabacteria --> eukaryotes
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I doubt it. Spiroplasma seems to have evolved by regressive evolution from clostridia, so they are not a step forward. Unlike mreb and ftsz, which have actin and tubulin analogs in eukaryotes, fib has no homologs whatsoever.
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Nelson Alonso
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