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From further down in the article: > Furthermore, that cell includes two membrane sacs, one of which contains all the cell’s DNA, Volland and colleagues report
by catlifeonmars 5y ago
From further down in the article:
> Furthermore, that cell includes two membrane sacs, one of which contains all the cell’s DNA, Volland and colleagues report in their 18 February preprint on bioRxiv. Volland calls that sac an organelle and that’s “a big new step” that implies the two branches of life are not as different as previously thought, Carvalho says. “Perhaps it’s time to rethink our definition of eukaryote and prokaryote!” agrees Petra Levin, a microbiologist at Washington University in St Louis. “It’s a supercool story.”
IMO, they really buried the lede on this one by focusing on the size of the bacterium and not on the convergent evolution of an apparent nucleus in a prokaryote.