Sentences with phrase «endosymbionts in»
They were also endosymbionts in the past, as it turns out.
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«The argument that the nucleus is an endosymbiont (given by a number of authors) is just not borne out by our knowledge of the structure and function of the nucleus,» concludes Anthony Poole of Massey University in New Zealand.
In turn, the bivalves and their endosymbionts profit from organic matter accumulation and radial oxygen release from the seagrass roots.
Gil is now sequencing and comparing the genomes of bacteria that live within insects in a mutually beneficial relationship, the so - called endosymbionts.
One obvious difference, however, is that organelles are found in almost every cell in an organism, while endosymbionts, because their main role is to provide nutrients for their hosts, are found only in certain cells.
(Beneficial endosymbionts, such as Tremblaya, are fairly common in invertebrates, but are rare in humans and other vertebrates.)
When Cary applied for the program at Scripps, his background with bivalves caught the attention of Horst Felbeck, one of the first to identify endosymbionts (symbiotic microbes that reside within the host cell) in vent clams and mussels.
Some species, called zooxanthellae, are endosymbionts of marine animals and protozoa, and play an important part in the biology of coral reefs.
Obligate secondary endosymbionts become dependent on their organelles and are unable to survive in their absence.
c) The eukaryote then began a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with it whereby the eukaryote provided protection and nutrients to the prokaryote, and in return, the prokaryotic endosymbiont provided additional energy to its eukaryotic host through its respiratory cellular machinary.
Plants and various groups of algae also have plastids with their own DNA and, like animals, are accepted to have developed from endosymbionts, in this case cyanobacteria.
Wolbachia, endosymbionts that reside naturally in up to 40 — 70 % of all insect species, are some of the most prevalent intracellular bacteria.
Additionally, we have discovered that wAu grows exponentially within this host and significantly shortens its lifespan in the absence of viral infection, demonstrating that harbouring this protective endosymbiont is associated with a fitness cost.
Atsushi Nakabachi, a postdoctoral research associate in UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and a visiting scientist at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, is the first author on the research report, «The 160 - kilobase genome of the bacterial endosymbiont Carsonella.»
Effects of doxycycline on the endosymbiont Wolbachia in Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy, 1856)-- Naturally infected dogs.