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Other examples of symbiotic and hybrid based evolution

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• Evolution of nucleus containing eukaryotes by symbiotic hybridization of a gram-negative eubacterial species with an archeal species
• Evolution of mitochondrial eukaryotes by symbiotic proteobacterial-non-mitochondrial eukaryote hybridization
• Rickettsia-like intracellular bacterial parasites/symbionts associated with postmating isolation and speciation of the mosquito Culex pipiens, Nasonia vitripennis and N. giraulti.
• Plant speciation through hybidization/symbiosis of 2 prior independent plant species.
• Evolution of rhizobia by acquisition of a 500-kb symbiosis island that integrates into a phe-tRNA gene
• Shigella evolution from E. Coli via plasmid acquisition and gene deletions

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