Sentences with phrase «called symbionts»

That organism, called a symbiont, gets protection from the environment and, in return, sometimes offers some benefit.

A species that lives this way, offering substantial help to the other species, is sometimes called a symbiont.

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While exploring the genome of a louse symbiont, they encountered an extrachromosomal region called a plasmid.

When this happens, one might expect that if the host organism evolves into two species, its symbiont would follow suit — a process called «cospeciation» or «congruent evolution.»