Sentences with phrase «of endosymbiotic»

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Where it is deeper there are fewer of these bacteria due to lower water temperatures, but we also find Osedax that, together with endosymbiotic bacteria, feed on the organic material retained in bones and therefore help decompose them,» explains Sergi Taboada.

Because their hosts provide a stable and rich environment, endosymbiotic bacteria have seen some of their genes become redundant, so they shed them over time.

Lilliputian Family Tremblaya is one of a growing family of extremely small endosymbiotic bacteria, discovered within the last seven years, that have challenged scientists» assumptions about the minimal blueprint of life.

He found that a number of shallow water bivalves had a similar survival strategy — employing endosymbiotic microbes that oxidize hydrogen sulfide to produce energy.

A green alga with throat - and stomach - like structures can swallow and digest bacteria when deprived of light, further bolstering Lynn Margulis's widely accepted idea that the origin of the plant - powering chloroplast was a fortuitous bout of indigestion.Termed «Endosymbiotic Theory», the idea is that early nucleated cells called eukaryotes ate bacteria that managed to escape digestion but also couldn't escape their captors.

Endosymbiotic theory posits a later parallel origin of the chloroplasts; a cell ate a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and failed to digest it.

Endosymbiotic theory, that attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants was greatly advanced by the seminal work of biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1960s.

The endosymbiotic acquisition of a eukaryote cell is represented in the cryptophytes; where the remnant nucleus of the red algal symbiont (the nucleomorph) is present between the two inner and two outer plastid membranes.

Endosymbiotic theory hypothesizes the origin of chloroplasts similarly, where chloroplasts a eukaryote with mitochondria engulfs a photosynthetic cyanobacteruim in a symbiotic relationship ending in the chloroplast organelle.

Besides endosymbiotic - based metabolism, the other great evolutionary innovation of the Eukaryotes that occured in the Proterozoic was the ability to reproduce sexually, making genetic diversity possible, and as a consequence, greatly enhanced the ability to adapt to and survive environmental changes.

A recent study indicates that disruption of species - specific regulation of different gut bacteria plays a role in hybrid lethality among Nasonia species [65], and the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia [66] is known to cause reproductive incompatibilities among species [67], [68].

His work has contributed to the emerging consensus that the endosymbiotic theory is correct; this idea proposes that mitochondria, chloroplasts, and perhaps other organelles of eukaryotic cells originated as prokaryote endosymbionts, which came to live inside eukaryotic cells.

After this, the theory fell out of grace, possibly due to the college textbook of E.B. Wilson, who regarded endosymbiotic theories as «too fanciful».

Dr. Jack Kruse: Both of them are endosymbiotic bacteria that we have figured out.

Math is a tool, nothing more, it ties up loose ends or assists in making predictions or presenting probability or understanding how much how far, how fast, what angle, etc... When I read all of Gould's books, I realized how enormous evolution really is; punctuated equilibrium, endosymbiotic theory, etc... What I was referring to in regards to a quantity, is like looking at Henry's law, or Fick's law, Grahams law etc...