Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

The evolutionary origin of life forms known as eukaryotes – a category that includes plants and animals but also yeast and few other single-celled organisms – is still a mystery, but many scientists ...

The redox-sensitive proteome (RSP) consists of protein thiols that undergo redox reactions, playing an important role in coordinating cellular processes. Here, we applied a large-scale phylogenomic ...

Bacterial intracellular symbiosis (endosymbiosis) is widespread in nature and impacts many biological processes. In holometabolous symbiotic insects, metamorphosis entails a complete and abrupt ...

The evolution of intracellular organelles through endosymbiosis was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. Subsequent loss of endosymbiotic organelles, or plastids, has only been ...

Scientists have created new artificial microbes by combining two very different organisms into one functioning entity. The hybrid of a yeast and a bacterium adds evidence to a long-standing hypothesis ...

Even if the well-known endosymbiotic theory is right, and once free-living single-celled organisms evolved to become organelles within larger cells, much remains unexplained about how, exactly, ...

Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the subsequent evolution of the two ...

Discoveries reported in PLoS Biology have opened up a promising new front in the battle against the human suffering caused by parasitic nematodes. Foster and colleagues (2005) have completed the ...

We are pleased to announce that all abstracts from the 14th edition are now available online in The Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids, and Endosymbiosis (JMPE). [Germany, November 28, 2023] – The 14th ...