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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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31351 |