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A tree of life drawn by Bill Martin in 1998, reflecting whole genomes. The tree shows the chimeric origin of eukaryotes, in which an archaeal host cell acquired bacterial endosymbionts that evolved into mitochondria; and the later acquisition of chloroplasts in Plantae. Reproduced with permission from [51]. Copyright 1999 © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
