Organelle origins: energy-producing symbionts in early eukaryotes?.
The discovery that Trichomonas vaginalis, an early diverging protist that lacks mitochondria but has energy-producing hydrogenosomes, makes bacterial-like heat shock proteins suggests that symbionts ancestral to mitochondria and hydrogenosomes were present at early stages of eukaryote evolution.
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Bay-Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D017125:Genes, Protozoan; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology; D015388:Organelles / Q000502:physiology*; D013559:Symbiosis; D014246:Trichomonas vaginalis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure