Table of Contents:
  • The road to hydrogenosomes
  • Mitochondria: key to complexity
  • Origin, function,and transmission of mitochondria
  • Mitochondria and their host: morphology to molecular phylogeny
  • Anaerobic mitochondria: properties and origins
  • Iron-sulfur proteins and iron-sulfur cluster assembly in organisms with hydrogenosomes and mitosomes
  • Hydrogenosomes (and related organelles, either) are not the same
  • The chimeric origin of mitochondria: photosynthetic cell enslavement, gene-transfer pressure, and compartmentation efficiency
  • Constantin Merezhkowsky and the endokaryotic hypothesis
  • The diversity of mitochondrion-related organelles amongst eukaryotic microbes
  • Mitosomes of parasitic protozoa: biology and evolutionary significance
  • index.