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MITOCHONDRIA are clearly not strictly autonomous organelles and depend for their biogenesis on both nuclear and mitochondrial information1–5. But how autonomous is the mitochondrion with respect to other mitochondria within a cell ?
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ADOUTTE, A., BEISSON, J. Evolution of Mixed Populations of Genetically Different Mitochondria in Paramecium aurelia. Nature 235, 393–396 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235393b0
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