ArticleMicrobial cell (Graz, Austria)2019
In the beginning was the word: How terminology drives our understanding of endosymbiotic organelles.
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- Endosymbiotic Evolution of Algae, Secondary Heterotrophy and Parasitism.Biomolecules · 2019Review
- Subcellular Compartments Interplay for Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation in Chromera velia and Vitrella brassicaformis.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
- What's in a name? How organelles of endosymbiotic origin can be distinguished from endosymbionts.Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2019Article
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Abstract
The names we give objects of research, to some extent, predispose our ways of thinking about them. Misclassifications of Oomycota, Microsporidia, Myxosporidia, and Helicosporidia have obviously affected not only their formal taxonomic names, but also the methods and approaches with which they have been investigated. Therefore, it is important to name biological entities with accurate terms in order to avoid discrepancies in researching them. The endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and plastids is now the most accepted scenario for their evolution. Since it is apparent that there is no natural definitive border between bacteria and semiautonomous organelles, I propose that mitochondria and plastids should be called bacteria and classified accordingly, in the bacterial classification system. I discuss some consequences of this approach, including: i) the resulting "changes" in the abundances of bacteria, ii) the definitions of terms like microbiome or multicellularity, and iii) the concept of endosymbiotic domestication.
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