Endosymbiosis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Löffelhardt, Wolfgang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Evolutionary biology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.

The origin of energy-conserving organelles, the mitochondria of all aerobic eukaryotes and the plastids of plants and algae, is commonly thought to be the result of endosymbiosis, where a  primitive eukaryote engulfed a respiring α-proteobacterium or a phototrophic cyanobacterium, respectively. Whil...