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Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids

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The origins and evolution of mitochondria and plastids is a topic that has intrigued biologists for well over a century. A wealth of biochemical, cell biological, and, most recently, molecular sequence data has been brought to bear on this important issue, and it has now been definitively shown that these organelles are of prokaryotic ancestry. Nevertheless, many important questions about mitochondrial and plastid evolution remain unanswered, particularly those pertaining to the earliest events in organelle biogenesis and the environmental conditions in which they evolved. This chapter provides an overview of past and present models for the evolutionary origins of mitochondria and plastids, emphasizing recent advances made possible by taxonomically broad comparative genomic analyses and detailed biochemical investigations of diverse protist taxa.

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This chapter is dedicated to Drs. M. W. Gray and W. F. Doolittle for their ­pioneering work on organelle origins. We thank Drs. M. W. Gray and A. J. Roger for interesting­ discussion and useful comments on an earlier version of this ­chapter. Research on organelle evolution in the Archibald Laboratory is supported by operating grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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Curtis, B.A., Archibald, J.M. (2010). Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids. In: Seckbach, J., Grube, M. (eds) Symbioses and Stress. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9449-0_3

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