Fantastic paper. Esp challenging the typical binary process of genesis or transition. Just as the first cells as we know them were possibly survivors of multitudes of attempts that did not survive to evolve. The origin of cellular life was not simple; neither was evolution to multiple cell types.
Lzvolk
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
