Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Forging an evolutionary individual from separate replicators
J. Carlos R. Hernandez‐Beltran, Ellen McConnell, David W. Rogers, Paul B. Rainey
The paper demonstrates how plasmid communities in yeast cells can become units of selection through packaging and segregation, leading to reliable heredity and an evolutionary transition in individuality.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.05.743067