Evolutionary assembly of cooperating cell types in an animal chemical defense system
A. Bruckner, J. Badroos, R. W. Learsch, M. Yousefelahiyeh, S. A. Kitchen, J. Parker
The paper shows how two cooperating cell types in a rove beetle gland evolved to produce a defensive chemical cocktail through coevolution and functional integration.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2021Evolutionary Biology