How Mitochondria Began - Parasitic Coevolution Gets A New Wrinkle
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 07:40
in Biology & Nature
Parasitic bacteria were the first cousins of mitochondria, the energy factories in our cells – and first acted as energy parasites in those cells before becoming beneficial, according to a University of Virginia study that used next-generation DNA sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of 18 bacteria that are close relatives of mitochondria. read more