Publications

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Colizzi, E. & Hogeweg, P. (2017). Evolutionary conflict leads to innovation: symmetry breaking in a spatial model of RNA-like replicators. Life, 7(4): 43. DOI: 10.3390/life7040043

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A. & Snel, B. (2020). Recurrent sequence evolution after independent gene duplication. BMC evolutionary biology, 20:98. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01660-1

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Snel, B. & Hogeweg, P. (2022). Evolution of Regulatory Complexity for Cell-cycle Control. Genome biology and evolution, 14(5): evac056. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac056

• Vosseberg, J., Stolker, D., Von der Dunk, S. H. A. & Snel, B. (2023). Integrating phylogenetics with intron positions illuminates the origin of the spliceosome. Molecular biology and evolution, 40(1): msad011. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad011

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Hogeweg, P. & Snel, B. (2023). Obligate endosymbiosis explains genome expansion during eukaryogenesis. Communications Biology, 6:777. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05153-x

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Hogeweg, P. & Snel, B. (2023). Intracellular signaling in proto-eukaryotes evolves to alleviate regulatory conflicts of endosymbiosis. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(2): e1011860. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011860

• Zania, A., Hogeweg, P. & Von der Dunk, S. H. A. (2025). The risk of sexual reproduction promotes the evolution of regulation between host and symbiont. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.30.667627

• Malone, J. S., Martin, N. S., Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Davalos, L. M. & Louis, A. A. (2025). Developmental bias explains the evolutionary trend towards simple leaf shapes. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.17.670617

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Martin, N. S., Dingle, K. & Louis, A. A. (2025). RNA secondary structures are conserved but random. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.18.670923

• Von der Dunk, S. H. A., Dingle, K., Louis, A. A., Snel, B. & Hogeweg, P. (2025). Natural protein structures have evolved exceptional robustness to mutations. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.27.672565