Sogin M L
Bay-Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
Curr Biol. 1997 May 1;7(5):R315-7. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00147-3.
The discovery that Trichomonas vaginalis, an early diverging protist that lacks mitochondria but has energy-producing hydrogenosomes, makes bacterial-like heat shock proteins suggests that symbionts ancestral to mitochondria and hydrogenosomes were present at early stages of eukaryote evolution.
阴道毛滴虫是一种早期分化的原生生物,它没有线粒体,但具有能产生能量的氢化酶体,其能产生类似细菌的热休克蛋白这一发现表明,线粒体和氢化酶体的共生祖先在真核生物进化的早期阶段就已存在。