Journal article
An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature
Abstract
Mitochondria, organelles specialized in energy conservation reactions in eukaryotic cells, have evolved from eubacteria-like endo-symbionts 1–3 whose closest known relatives are the rickettsial group of α-proteobacteria 4,5. Because characterized mitochondrial genomes vary markedly in structure3, it has been impossible to infer from them the initial form of the proto-mitochondrial genome. This would require the identification of minimally …
Authors
Lang BF; Burger G; O'Kelly CJ; Cedergren R; Golding GB; Lemieux C; Sankoff D; Turmel M; Gray MW
Journal
Nature, Vol. 387, No. 6632, pp. 493–497
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
May 1997
DOI
10.1038/387493a0
ISSN
0028-0836