Origin of mitochondria and hydrogenosomes
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Published: |
Springer,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin New York |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 306 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9783540385011 (alk. paper) 3540385010 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | Q244 |
CLC: |
Q244 Q21 |
Call Number: | Q244/O695 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 chimeric 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 -- index. |