Ádám Kun

Host-initiated microbial association leads to stable ectosymbiosis in an ecological model

Microbial symbiosis is extremely common among metabolically coupled cells, and, presumably, gave rise to mitochondria. How such symbioses emerge, evolve and stabilize are unknown, especially in the prokaryotic domain, where endosymbioses are virtually nonexistent. Yet there is growing evidence suggesting that the eukar...