 An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature by B. Franz Lang and others

By B. Franz Lang, Gertraud Burger, Charles J. O’Kelly, Robert Cedergren, G. Brian Golding, Claude Lemieux, David Sankoff, Monique Turmel, Michael W. Gray.

Published in Nature.

Online text: www.nature.com/articles/387493a0

Full article paywalled. No detailed sequencing methods, contamination controls, raw sequence alignments or trees claimed inspected. Article text explicitly states this access limit; not presented as a paper review. Its 1997 closest-rickettsial-relative claim and obsolete host classification are not repeated. No modern species described as literal ancestor.