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Mitochondria in hiding

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The apparent absence of mitochondria in some microbes contributed to the view that they were early offshoots of the eukaryotic line of descent. New evidence tells a different story.

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Figure 1: Distribution of mitochondrion-related organelles in eukaryotes.

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  1. the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CIAR Program in Evolutionary Biology and Genome Atlantic, Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 4H7, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Andrew J. Roger

  2. the Department of Microbiology, Astrobiology Program, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, California, USA

    Jeffrey D. Silberman

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Roger, A., Silberman, J. Mitochondria in hiding. Nature 418, 827–829 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418827a

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