Talk:Mitochondrion
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Endosymbiotic theory
More information about mitochondiral DNA and endosymbiosis theory is needed here! Some is available at
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/Endosymbiosis.html
Different page
This should rather go to endosymbiotic hypothesis or a new page, I guess.
Aragorn2 15:25, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)
non-photosynthetic eukaryotes
can you give an example of one without mitochondria? I'm skeptical.168... 08:14, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC) Never mind. I found the Diplomonadida.168... 08:18, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
mtDNA recombination possible in humans
Hopefully it has been noticed that Kreytsberg et al. have released a shocking paper. Although it doesn't directly refute the use of mtDNA as a marker in population genetics, it casts doubt on this method.
I have changed the article to reflect this. I refer to ' Kraytsberg et al., Recombination of Human Mitochondrial DNA, Science 2004 304: 981'.
Rewrite
This article has been accepting a number of "1 line updates" over its history, and has become somewhat cluttered. Additionally, many of the entries are redundant ("cristae" were described a number of times, for example), and a number of the entries were opaque to a lay reader (such as unexmaplined references to "alpha-proteo bacteria" and "matrix-targeting sequences", for example). I decided to undertake a large rewrite of this article, with the goals of reorganizing the information, and making it fully accessible to, say, a motivated middle school reader. Entries of more complexity should be pushed into specialized articles on the subject. – ClockworkSoul 17:44, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Organisinisation of the mitochondrion associated articles
I've been looking at the articles that stem from this one and I think that we should consider the following changes:
- Merging Mitochondrial DNA and Mitochondrial genetics, probably keeping the Mitochondiral genetics title.
- Keeping and tidying Mitochondrial disease
--nixie 23:09, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Interesting theory or established fact?
I can't recall where but I seem to remember hearing that mitochondria may have been one of the first lifeforms in the primeval sea and started out as an independent lifeform which may later on have struck up some kind of mutually beneficial relationsship with another lifeform thus becoming the foundation of all life that it is today. Was that just nonsense? If not I think it deserves some mention because it is frightfully interesting isn't it? Preisler 21:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Ah it's already mentioned I see.. The bio lingo in the first couple of paragraphs made me skip it.. This article really is a bit hard to read for the layman..