ENGULFMENT. “An alternative possibility, leading to the same outcome, is that the earliest versions of cell–cell fusion entailed the engulfment of one protoeukaryote by another, with the internalized cell membrane then either digested or fused with the host cell membrane from within.”
http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/3/a016154.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022