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Alkmini Zania

Utrecht University

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The risk of sexual reproduction promotes the evolution of regulation between host and symbionts

Alkmini Zania, Paulien Hogeweg, Samuel H. A. von der Dunk

This study shows that biparental inheritance of endosymbionts during host-symbiont co-evolution leads to evolutionary conflict, which can be resolved through host regulation mechanisms, and that sexual reproduction may have emerged early in eukaryogenesis.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Apr 2, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology