Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria?

Mitochondrial DNA: genetic information that ... the nuclear genome contains genes from both parents. Phylogeny: the evolutionary relationships among, or evolutionary history of, a group of organisms.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of São Paulo sheds light on new discoveries about the mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation in ATP production. Recent findings highlight the ...

Mitochondria in malaria parasites have some unusual evolutionary and functional features. The drastic reduction in the size of their mitochondrial genome, encoding just three proteins, appears to ...

Certain forms of mitochondrial disease – Pearson syndrome, Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) – are each caused by single large-scale ...