because they occur in an interleaved manner across the tree of eukaryotic life. Instead they correspond to ecological specializations. Mitochondria of yet another kind yield even less ATP per ...

These mitochondria retain common features with ... Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis. PNAS 104, 2043–2049 (2007) Embley, T. M. & Martin, W. Eukaryotic evolution, changes and ...

The tree of life is broken up into three domains ... keep their DNA in a nucleus and have specialized "organelles," such as ...

Long before genomes could be sequenced and the implications of interspecies gene swapping debated, an even more perplexing issue was brought to bear on the sanctity of life’s tree: endosymbiosis ...