Hjort, Karin, Goldberg, Alina V., Tsaousis, Anastasios D., Hirt, Robert P., Embley, T. Martin (2010) Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365 (1541). pp. 713-727. ISSN 0962-8436. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0224) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:34991)
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Abstract
All extant eukaryotes are now considered to possess mitochondria in one form or another. Many parasites or anaerobic protists have highly reduced versions of mitochondria, which have generally lost their genome and the capacity to generate ATP through oxidative phosphorylation. These organelles have been called hydrogenosomes, when they make hydrogen, or remnant mitochondria or mitosomes when their functions were cryptic. More recently, organelles with features blurring the distinction between mitochondria, hydrogenosomes and mitosomes have been identified. These organelles have retained a mitochondrial genome and include the mitochondrial-like organelle of Blastocystis and the hydrogenosome of the anaerobic ciliate Nyctotherus. Studying eukaryotic diversity from the perspective of their mitochondrial variants has yielded important insights into eukaryote molecular cell biology and evolution. These investigations are contributing to understanding the essential functions of mitochondria, defined in the broadest sense, and the limits to which reductive evolution can proceed while maintaining a viable organelle.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1098/rstb.2009.0224 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | mitochondria; hydrogenosomes; mitosomes; mitochondrial-like organelles |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences |
Depositing User: | Anastasios Tsaousis |
Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2013 16:49 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/34991 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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