In article <1993Nov1.211849.5752 at cs.yale.edu> news at cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) writes:
>>In their 1977 paper Woese and Fox [Woese, C.R. and Fox, G.E.:
>The concept of cellular evolution, 1977, J. Mol. Evol. 10, 1-6]
>define the progenotic stage. They conclude their paper as
>follows:
>"It is at this progenotic state, not the procaryote stage, that the
>line of descent leading to the eucaryotic cytoplasm diverged from
>the bacterial lines of descent."
>Sorry, I forgot to "sign" the posting
J.Peter Gogarten
Univ. of Connecticut
Gogarten at uconnvm.uconn.edu