Are maternal mitochondria the selfish entities that are masters of the cells of eukaryotic multicellular organisms?

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-200

  Agnati, Luigi F ^a   Barlow, Peter W ^b   Baldelli, E ^a   Baluška, Frantisek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complexity; Embedded internal milieu; Energide; Evolution; Maternal mitochondria; Order; Prokaryote eukaryote transition

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 67650607086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.8320     Document Type: Article

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