Mitochondria in a tertiary endosymbiont

Mitochondria and plastids originated through endosymbiosis, and subsequently became reduced and integrated with the host in similar ways. Plastids spread between lineages through further secondary or even tertiary endosymbioses, but mitochondria appear to have originated once and have not spread...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Imanian, Behzad
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31351