An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

Intracellular endosymbionts that originally descended from free-living prokaryotes have been important in the evolution of eukaryotes by giving rise to two cytoplasmic organelles. Mitochondria ...

While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the ...