Mitochondria are best known for their role in the generation of ATP by aerobic respiration.
Yet, research in the past half century has shown that they perform a much larger suite of …

Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles and important for a variety of cellular functions.
They constantly undergo fission and fusion events, referred to as mitochondrial dynamics …

Mitochondria emerged from bacterial ancestors during endosymbiosis and are crucial for
cellular processes such as energy production and homeostasis, stress responses, cell …

The mitochondria contain their own genome derived from an alphaproteobacterial
endosymbiont. From thousands of protein-coding genes originally encoded by their …

Mitochondria and plastids power complex life. Why some genes and not others are retained
in their organelle DNA (oDNA) genomes remains a debated question. Here, we attempt to …

This novel text provides a concise synthesis of how the interactions between mitochondrial
and nuclear genes have played a major role in shaping the ecology and evolution of …

The protein family of mTERFs (mitochondrial transcription termination factors) was initially
studied in mammalian and insect mitochondria before the first Arabidopsis mTERF mutant …

Mitochondria play a key role in homeostasis and are central to one of the leading
hypotheses of aging, the free radical theory. Mitochondria function as a reticulated network …

Darwinian evolution can be simply stated: natural selection of inherited variations increasing
differential reproduction. However, formulated thus, links with biochemistry, cell biology …

Mitochondria originated from an ancient bacterial endosymbiont that underwent reductive
evolution by gene loss and endosymbiont gene transfer to the nuclear genome. The …