Sentences with phrase «as symbionts»

According to Prof. Holstein, the leading hypothesis assumes that they originated from organelles of similar construction and function in unicellular organisms that were absorbed as symbionts by early precursors of cnidarians.

Like cyanobacteria, these generally single - celled organisms draw energy through photosynthesis, with many living as symbionts inside coral.

Mycorrhizae, important representatives of soil fungi, live as symbionts with plant roots.

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Cara Gibson, BSc (Hon), MS, PhD was trained as an entomologist (insect scientist) and her interests include ecology, biodiversity, and interactions with microbial symbionts.

The microbe and the frog already exist as natural symbionts in nature.

Mesophotic (medium light): 40 to as deep as 150 meters (120 - 450 feet), the maximum depth at which tropical reef - building corals and their algal symbionts can survive.

Recently discovered archaeal lineages include mesophiles and (hyper --RRB- thermophiles, anaerobes and aerobes, autotrophs and heterotrophs, a large diversity of putative archaeal symbionts, as well as previously unknown acetogens and different groups of methanogens (see the figure).

One thing that all of these communities have in common is that the dominant tubeworms and clams host specialized intracellular bacteria (symbionts) that allow these animals to exploit potentially toxic chemicals in the vent fluids as sources of nutrition.

«We're all perfectionists; that's what we're selected for as a scientist,» says Ivens, who spends her days studying relationships between ants and their symbionts as a postdoctoral fellow at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Controlled experiments by the scientists from Jena implicate the bacterial symbionts in supplementing B vitamins to firebugs as an important feature of this association.

These are, as every high school student learns, symbionts, a fungus paired with an alga or a similar life form.

At the time, these extranuclear agents of heredity were thought of as everything from parasites, to symbionts, to genes and the labels applied to them were vague or contradictory, owing in part to the fact that very little was known about the role these factors played within an organism.

Another possible explanation is the activity of the coral endo - symbionts during daytime which acts as important mean of energy to the coral's cellular functions and physiology (Colombo - Pallotta, Rodríguez - Román & Iglesias - Prieto, 2010).

Wolbachia is a common maternally inherited bacterial symbiont able to induce crossing sterilities known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in insects.

Most bacteria are free - living, but some live as partners (symbionts) within other organisms.

We identified species not known to be associated with thermally tolerant algal Symbiodinium symbionts from clades D, C1 and C15, as well as those not known to be able to change or «shuffle» clades and / or types over time.

Members of the Helotiales thrive in various ecosystems and cover a broad range of niches, and helotialean fungi have been described as plant pathogens, endophytes, mycorrhizae, fungal parasites, terrestrial saprobes, aquatic saprobes, root symbionts, and wood rot fungi.

G. ruber has photosynthetic symbionts, which induces T: dO18 artifacts as mentioned by Bemis, et al..

And as reported in the discussion on the coral adaptive bleaching hypothesis, coral are always shifting and shuffling their symbionts to maximize photosynthesis to best adapt to changing local microclimates.

Each polyp can be visualized as an upside down jellyfish (coral's close cousins) with their backs cemented to a surface and tentacles extended outward to capture passing food particles, live prey, or new symbionts.

As the larvae develop into mature polyps, coral typically keep the symbiont types best suited to the local microclimate and expel the others.

Symbionts «types» are characterized first by their genetic lineages known as clades.

In contrast to researchers like Hoegh - Guldberg who emphasizes coral bleaching as a deadly product of global warming, bleaching is a visible stage in a complex set of acclimation mechanisms during which coral expel, shift and shuffle their symbionts, seeking the most beneficial partnership possible.

As predicted by the adaptive bleaching hypothesis, improved genetic techniques have revealed a wondrously diverse community of symbionts that coral can choose from.

Furthermore as conditions change, all species can shuffle their symbionts as polyps will expel their current residents and acquire a different type that had been harbored by a neighboring polyp.

Whether coral die or not depends on how quickly new symbionts are acquired relative to how much energy the coral has stored, or coral's ability to feed on plankton as an alternative energy source.

But Hoegh - Guldberg's persistent efforts to discredit the adaptive benefits of symbiont shifting and shuffling, serve as blatant example of why Feynman also argued «Science is the belief in the Ignorance of Experts.

As such, we will be symbionts (meaning that both entities entirely depend on each other for survival), entering into a mutually beneficial relationship with the algae.

The partnership between Orebits and Symbiont came about as both companies» CEOs have had a longstanding relationship from their days in the FX market.

Former Morgan Stanley managing director Caitlin Long has joined blockchain startup Symbiont as president and chairman of the board.

Further, Alex Mizrahi, founder of ChromaWay, and Symbiont founder Adam Krellenstein, are listed as advisory board members on the company website.