title: Mitochondrial Evolution: Going, Going, Gone.
abstract: Monocercomonoides is the first example of a eukaryote lacking even the most reduced form of a mitochondrion-related organelle. This has important implications for cellular processes and our understanding of reductive mitochondrial evolution across the eukaryotic tree of life.
authors.affiliation: Science for Life Laboratory, Program in Systematic Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden. Electronic address: fabien.burki@ebc.uu.se.
authors.forename: Fabien
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Burki
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D056890:Eukaryota; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D008928:Mitochondria; D015388:Organelles