{"id":23447,"date":"2025-04-17T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/fb10\/?p=23447"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:27:47","slug":"eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bio.uni-mainz.de\/en\/2025\/04\/17\/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published groundbreaking research in the journal PNAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n
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April 17, 2025 | An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published groundbreaking research in the journal PNAS, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life’s evolution on Earth: the origin of the eukaryotic cell. While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the eukaryotic cell.

It is a gap in our knowledge, referred to as the black hole at the heart of biology. “The new study is a blend of theoretical and observational approaches that quantitatively understands how the genetic architecture of life was transformed to allow such an increase in complexity”, stated Dr. Enrique M. Muro<\/em>, representative of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in this project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: JGU | Press and Public Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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