From: Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses
Syntrophy hypothesis [48] | Phagocytosing archaeon theory [16] | Sulfur-cycling hypothesis [57] | Origin-by-infection hypothesis [57] | |||||
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Eukaryotic singularity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Lack of intermediates | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Chimaeric nature (membrane conversion) | ✓ (✓) | ✓ (✓) | ✓ (✓) | ✓ (?) | ✓ (?) | ✓ (?) | ✓ (?) | ✓ (?) |
Lack of membrane bioenergetics in host | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Non-photosynthetic mitochondria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Variety of mitochondria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Metabolism of host | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (?) |
Metabolism of symbiont | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Initial relationship | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (?) | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Early selective advantage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (untenable) | |||
Mechanism of inclusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Vertical transmission | ✓ |