A new study challenges a popular scenario put forward to explain the arrival of the first eukaryotic organisms. In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on ...

Their study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, challenges a popular scenario put forward to explain the arrival of the first eukaryotic organisms.

Prokaryotic cells, which include all bacteria and archaea, are ancient, and relatively simple compared to eukaryotic cells, which are found in fungi, plants, and animals. Scientists have long sought ...

EDITOR’S CHOICE IN MICROBIOLOGY The ability of one cell to ingest another, called phagocytosis, was a crucial step in the evolution of eukaryotic cells and may explain how membrane-bound organelles ...