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A large phylogenomics study reveals that the symbiotic event that led to the emergence of organelles known as mitochondria may have occurred later in the evolution of complex cells than was thought. See Letter p.101

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Figure 1: Origin of eukaryotic cells and their mitochondria.

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  1. Thijs J. G. Ettema is in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden.,
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Ettema, T. Mitochondria in the second act.Nature 531, 39–40 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16876

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