Sentences with phrase «involved in symbioses»

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Just like symbiosis in nature, which involves prolonged association, states and cultural domains thrive through mutual interests and interdependencies.

«However, recent work has shown that at least some of the fungal partners in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses lack the genes for enzymes involved in the major pathway of lipid biosynthesis, and are therefore unable to produce certain essential fatty acids,» Gutjahr explains.

Recent findings emphasize the importance of investigating members of the archaeal domain of life in order to obtain a more comprehensive view of microbial ecology, symbiosis, and metabolic interdependencies involving archaeal partners, and of evolution of life on Earth in regard to the deep roots of archaea as well as our microbial ancestry.

As the D14L protein is also involved in plants developmental responses to light Paszkowski talks of a «gut feeling» that — with this ancient protein responding to light, atmosphere (through smoke detection) and soil environment (through fungal symbiosis)-- it could have been a developmental crossroads vital to plants» evolutionary leap out of the oceans.

It was also clear that symbiosis — a process involving an intimate collaboration between two cell types — played an important role in this process.

We may have evolved from viruses and our mitochondria comes from bacteria (as do plant chloroplasts) and in this case symbiosis in addition to natural selection is involved in evolutionary processes.