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What makes a mitochondrion?

Joshua L Heazlewood, A H Millar, David A Day and James Whelan*

Author Affiliations

Plant Molecular Biology Group, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:218 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-6-218

Published: 28 May 2003

Abstract

Experimental analyses of the proteins found in the mitochondria of yeast, humans and Arabidopsis have confirmed some expectations but given some surprises and some insights into the evolutionary origins of mitochondrial proteins.