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César Sánchez @twistedbacteria.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells

How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.

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César Sánchez @twistedbacteria.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hypothetical scenario of eukaryogenesis Image taken from "Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis" www.nature.com/articles/s41... (open access)

Illustration of gene flow along the succession of events leading from a simple archaeal ancestor through the more complex Asgard intermediate capturing the proto-mitochondrial alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA).
Image taken from the article entitled "Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis" by Victor Tobiasson, Jacob Luo, Yuri I. Wolf & Eugene V. Koonin.
Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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