Mitochondrial Evolution
Published in Science • Mar 5, 1999
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Michael W. Gray
Gertraud Burger
B. Franz Lang
Abstract
The serial endosymbiosis theory is a favored model for explaining the origin of mitochondria, a defining event in the evolution of eukaryotic cells. As usually described, this theory posits that mitochondria are the direct descendants of a bacterial endosymbiont that became established at an early s...
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