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A view of early cellular evolution.

Journal of molecular evolution ·Vol. 25 ·No. 2 ·1987-00-00 ·Pages 168-83

Mikelsaar R

Abstract

Some recent puzzling data on mitochondria put in question their place on the phylogenetic tree. A hypothesis, the archigenetic hypothesis, is presented, which generally agrees with Woese-Fox's concept of the common origin of eubacteria, archaebacteria, and eukaryotic hosts. However, for the first time, a case is made for the evolution of mitochondria from the ancient predecessors of pro- and eukaryotes (protobionts), not from eubacteria. Animal, fungal, and plant mitochondria are considered to be endosymbionts derived from independent free-living cells (mitobionts), which, having arisen at different developmental stages of protobionts, retained some of their ancient primitive features of the genetic code and the transcription-translation systems. The molecular-biological, bioenergetic, and paleontological aspects of this new concept of cellular evolution are discussed.

MeSH Terms
Animals Biological Evolution DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics Genetic Code Models, Genetic Phylogeny Species Specificity
Chemicals
DNA, Mitochondrial
Authors & Affiliations
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Mikelsaar R
Institute of General and Molecular Pathology, Tartu State University, Estonia, USSR.
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of molecular evolution
Abbr.
J Mol Evol
ISSN
0022-2844
DOI
10.1007/BF02101759
Published
1987-00-00
Pages
168-83
Language
English
Region
Germany
NLM ID
0360051
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF02101759 View journal details
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