Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

These protozoa are also of interest from the cell biology point of view since they present special cytoplasmic structures and organelles, which have been studied in some detail in the last years ...

The coordination of separate genomes is achieved by both anterograde mechanisms (nucleus to organelle ... on the 'receiving side' in the cytoplasm or the nucleus. This might be due to protein ...