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The incredible shrinking organelle
Author(s) -
Gray Michael W
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2011.168
Subject(s) - organelle , mitochondrion , biology , genome , nothing , shrinkage , mitochondrial dna , bacteria , evolutionary biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning
The mitochondrion is probably the evolutionary remnant of a bacterial symbiont, yet contemporary mitochondria are nothing like contemporary bacteria. Evolutionary shrinkage of the mitochondrial genome is well documented, but what about wholesale shrinkage of the organelle itself?