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Anaerobic endosymbiont generates energy for ciliate host by denitrification

Mitochondria are specialized eukaryotic organelles that have a dedicated function in oxygen respiration and energy production. They evolved about 2 billion years ago from a free-living bacterial ancestor (probably an alphaproteobacterium), in a process known as endosymbiosis(1,2). Many unicellular e...

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Autores principales: Graf, Jon S., Schorn, Sina, Kitzinger, Katharina, Ahmerkamp, Soeren, Woehle, Christian, Huettel, Bruno, Schubert, Carsten J., Kuypers, Marcel M. M., Milucka, Jana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7969357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33658719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03297-6