DODGING THE RABBIT HOLE. “Highly reduced genomes of insect symbionts contain mostly genes involved with cell replication, transcription, and translation: Mutations in these genes will impact fitness of individual symbiont cells, where selfishness can originate. Thus, eukaryotic organelles may have escaped the symbiosis rabbit hole primarily because genes controlling symbiont replication are transferred to the host genome.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022