Origin of Mitochondria and Hydrogenosomes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Martin, William F. (Editor), Müller, Miklós (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

The evolutionary origins of hydrogenosomes have been the subject of considerable debate. From early days it was apparent that hydrogenosomes had evolved on multiple occasions in different eukaryotes, but from which progenitor organelle or endosymbiont was unresolved. Work from many different laborat...

Table of Contents:

• The Road to Hydrogenosomes
• Mitochondria: Key to Complexity
• Origin, Function, and Transmission of Mitochondria
• Mitochondria and Their Host: Morphology to Molecular Phylogeny
• Anaerobic Mitochondria: Properties and Origins
• Iron–Sulfur Proteins and Iron–Sulfur Cluster Assembly in Organisms with Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes
• Hydrogenosomes (and Related Organelles, Either) Are Not the Same
• The Chimaeric Origin of Mitochondria: Photosynthetic Cell Enslavement, Gene-Transfer Pressure, and Compartmentation Efficiency
• Constantin Merezhkowsky and the Endokaryotic Hypothesis
• The Diversity of Mitochondrion-Related Organelles Amongst Eukaryotic Microbes
• Mitosomes of Parasitic Protozoa: Biology and Evolutionary Significance.