Endosymbiosis || Mitochondria and the Or
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LΓΆffelhardt, Wolfgang
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Article
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2013
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Springer Vienna
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German
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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 aΒ primitive eukaryote engulfed a respiring Ξ±-proteobacterium or a phototrophic cyanobacterium, respectively. Whil