Emergent RNA-RNA interactions can promote stability in a nascent phototrophic endosymbiosis
B. H. Jenkins, F. Maguire, G. Leonard, J. D. Eaton, S. West, B. E. Housden, D. S. Milner, T. A. Richards
The paper demonstrates that RNA-RNA interactions mediated by host RNAi can impose a cost on host growth when endosymbionts are digested, promoting stability in a nascent eukaryote-eukaryote endosymbiosis.
bioRxiv · Apr 11, 2021Evolutionary Biology