Endosymbiosis is a fascinating biological phenomenon in which an organism lives inside another. Such an unusual relationship is often beneficial for both parties. Even in our bodies, we find ...

Researchers have taken an important step in understanding the origins of complex life by recreating the beginnings of ...

Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria?

Long before genomes could be sequenced and the implications of interspecies gene swapping debated, an even more perplexing issue was brought to bear on the sanctity of life’s tree: endosymbiosis. In ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae. Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids ...

The blueprint that nature gives us is that eukaryotes acquire nitrogen fixation by endosymbiosis. —Ellen Yeh, Stanford University Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the ...