How did mitochondirial genes migrate into the nuclear genome?

Subject: How did mitochondirial genes migrate into the nuclear genome?

Date: Fri Oct 21 16:07:26 2005
Posted by Jesse
Grade level: undergrad School: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
City: Greensboro State/Province: North Carolina Country: USA
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 1129936046.Ev

Message:


How did mitochondirial genes get into the nucleus, or did they do so at all? One
can imagine a scenario where nuclear encoded proteins started to participate in
mitochonridrial functions. Do nuclear encoded mitochondrial genes have introns?
If so is it possible to follow the formation of introns phylogeneticaly?

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