Hydrogen hypothesis

Martin W, Mtlller M. 1998. The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature 392 37 1. 

Martin W (2007) Anaerobic Eukaryotes in Pursuit of Phylogenetic Normality the Evolution of Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes. Springer, Heidelberg Martin W, Muller M (1998) The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature 392 37-41... 

Whatever the explanation of the stem eukaryote, the eukaryote organelles, both mitochondria and chloroplasts, are best explained as symbiont bacteria. Explanations of the mitochondrial symbiosis mostly invoke an early Archean stem that incorporated a bacterial symbiont. One explanation of the mitochondrion is that the origin of the mitochondrion was simultaneous with the origin of the eukaryote nucleus (Grey et al, 1999). In the hydrogen hypothesis (Martin and Muller, 1998), the symbiosis is seen as the end product of a tight physical association between anaerobic... 

However, Huckel6 returned to the nascent hydrogen hypothesis in order to explain the reduction of isolated aromatic nuclei by the system alkali-metal-liquid ammonia-alcohol.5 7 Since this system contains no metal surface to catalyse the recombination of H atoms (2H -> H2), it may be the resulting concentration of free hydrogen atoms that triggers the primary process. 

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