Centre for Systems Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Trends Microbiol. 2011 Feb;19(2):58-64. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.11.001. Epub 2010 Dec 1.
The scientific community is comfortable with recognising mitochondria as organelles that happen to be descendants of bacteria. Here, I playfully explore the arguments for and against a phylogenetic fundamentalism that states that mitochondria are bacteria and should be given their own taxonomic family, the Mitochondriaceae. I also explore the consequences of recognizing mitochondria as bacteria for our understanding of the systemic response to trauma and for the prospects of creating transgenic mitochondria.
科学界乐于承认线粒体是碰巧从细菌演化而来的细胞器。在这里，我饶有趣味地探讨了支持和反对系统发生原教旨主义的论点，该主义认为线粒体是细菌，应该给予它们自己的分类家族——线粒体科。我还探讨了将线粒体视为细菌对我们理解创伤后全身反应以及创造转基因线粒体的前景的影响。
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