Absolutely. Also check the study by @mollybergum.bsky.social and Matt Moscou. They independently found exaptation (or complex scape) in the neofunctionalization of Exo70 clade FX www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks! Yes, we made an independent attempt to interpret plant exocyst evolutionary dynamics (also by using DNA from algae!) I would say both papers are worth reading, maybe even side-by-side #PlantScience