Are maternal mitochondria the selfish entities that are masters of the cells of eukaryotic multicellular organisms?
Download PDF If the document does not open, please right-click on the link (control-click on a Macintosh) and select the option to save the file to disk. The Energide concept, as well as the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell organization and evolution, propose that present-day cells of eukaryotic organisms are a mosaic of specialized and cooperating units, or organelles. Some of these units were originally free-living prokaryotes which were engulfed during evolutionary time. Mitochondria represent one of these types of previously independent organisms, the Energide is another type. This new perspective on the organisation of the cell has been further expanded to reveal the concept of a public milieu, the cytosol, in which Energides and mitochondria live, each with their own private internal milieu. The present paper discusses how the endosymbiotic theory implicates a new hypothesis about the hierarchical and communicational organization of the integrated prokaryotic components of
The Energide concept, as well as the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell organization and evolution, propose that present-day cells of eukaryotic organisms are a mosaic of specialized and cooperating units, or organelles. Some of these units were originally free-living prokaryotes which were engulfed during evolutionary time. Mitochondria represent one of these types of previously independent organisms, the Energide is another type. This new perspective on the organisation of the cell has been further expanded to reveal the concept of a public milieu, the cytosol, in which Energides and mitochondria live, each with their own private internal milieu. The present paper discusses how the endosymbiotic theory implicates a new hypothesis about the hierarchical and communicational organization of the integrated prokaryotic components of the eukaryotic cell and provides a new angle from which to consider the theory of evolution and its bearing upon cellular complexity. Thus, it is propose
