Response to Martin and colleagues: Mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Michael Lynch; Georgi K. Marinov

doi:10.1186/s13062-018-0228-3

Response to Martin and colleagues: Mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Michael Lynch, Georgi K. Marinov

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A recent paper by (Gerlitz et al., Biol Direct 13:21, 2018) questions the validity of the data underlying prior analyses on the bioenergetics capacities of cells, and continues to promote the idea that the mitochondrion endowed eukaryotic cells with energetic superiority over prokaryotes. The former point has been addressed previously, with no resultant changes in the conclusions, and the latter point remains inconsistent with multiple lines of empirical data.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	26
Journal	Biology Direct
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-018-0228-3
State	Published - Nov 29 2018

Keywords

Bioenergetics
Cell size
Eukaryogenesis
Mitochondrion
Ribosomes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Immunology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Modeling and Simulation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Applied Mathematics

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Response to Martin and colleagues: Mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

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