An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature by B. Franz Lang and others (1997, 10.1038/387493a0)

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.