Re: Endosymbiosis

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:21:19 -0600

>Ribosomal structure and sequence comparisons still show a closer
>relationship between proks and mitochondria and chloroplasts, so the idea
>has much more going for it than just being an "easy out for the origin of
>mitochondria and chloroplasts".

don't mitochondria and prokaryotes also initiate protein translation using
fMet rather than Met like mRNA?

Steve
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