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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 58-64Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.11.001
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The scientific community is comfortable with recognising mitochondria as organelles that happen to be descendants of bacteria. Here, I playfully explore the arguments for and against a phylogenetic fundamentalism that states that mitochondria are bacteria and should be given their own taxonomic family, the Mito-chondriaceae. I also explore the consequences of recognizing mitochondria as bacteria for our understanding of the systemic response to trauma and for the prospects of creating transgenic mitochondria.
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