Before revision:  This was confirmed by a comparison of our empirical findings with those of a recently described computational model of network growth based on fusion-fission balance. These results , offer an objective methodology to parametrize the mitochondrial status under a variety of both physiological and pathological cellular conditions, and overall add weight to the fission-fusion model for the mitochondrial reticulum dynamics .
After revision:  This was confirmed by a comparison of our empirical findings with those of a recently described computational model of mitochondrial network emergence based on fission-fusion kinetics. Altogether these results not only offer an objective methodology to parametrize the mitochondrial status under a variety of both physiological and pathological cellular conditions, and overall add weight to the fission-fusion model for the mitochondrial reticulum dynamics .