Organellar gene expression [Elektronische Ressource] : regulation of phage-type RNA polymerase transcript accumulation and analyses of mitochondrial gene copy numbers in Arabidopsis / von Tobias Preuten

Organellar gene expression: Regulation of phage-type RNA polymerase transcript accumulation and analyses of mitochondrial gene copy numbers in Arabidopsis DISSERTATION zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) im Fach Biologie eingereicht an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät I der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin von Diplom-Biologe Tobias Preuten geboren am 29.05.1978 in Solingen Präsident der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Markschies Dekan der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät I Prof. Dr. rer. nat., habil. Lutz-Helmut Schön Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. Thomas Börner 2. Prof. Dr. Axel Brennicke 3. Dr. Alisdair Fernie Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 16.Oktober 2009 Let us imagine a palm tree, growing peacefully near a spring, and a lion, hiding in the brush nearby, all of its muscles taut, with bloodthirsty eyes, prepared to jump upon an antelope and to strangle it. The symbiotic theory, and it alone, lays bare the deepest mysteries of this scene, unravels and illuminates the fundamental principle that could bring forth two such utterly different entities as a palm tree and a lion. The palm behaves so peacefully, so passively, because it is a symbiosis, because it contains a plethora of little workers, green slaves (chromatophores) that work for it and nourish it. The lion must nourish itself.