Mitochondrial acquisition occurred in a scenario of increasing complexity.

By analysing duplicates of thousands of genes, researchers reconstructed the evolutionary events leading to the creation of eukaryotic cells, the precursors to virtually all life you can see with the naked eye.

The evolutionary timeline from simple bacterial cells to complex eukaryotic cells progressed differently than previously thought.

The study, a collaboration between the Comparative Genomics lab at IRB Barcelona and the University of Utrecht, was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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