Sentences with phrase «of symbiont»

«I fear the financialization of bitcoin, in the sense that it may create phantom bitcoin that may not actually exist,» said Caitlin Long, the president and chairman of Symbiont, an enterprise blockchain startup.

There, she works alongside Mark Smith and Caitlin Long, the CEO and president of Symbiont, respectively, and Cooley LLP FinTech lead Marco Santori, on the Delaware Blockchain Initiative.

Caitlin Long, a Wyoming native, is former chairman and president of Symbiont and a former managing director of Morgan Stanley.

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.

Scientists have found that coral colonies nearer the surface often harbor a different type of symbiont than colonies living just a few meters deeper.

The exponential growth of the symbiont may be the cause of the life - shortening, either by direct tissue damage or by constituting a significant metabolic burden compromising the insect's health.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

The findings have revealed that how bacteria is passed and contracted is key to the intensity of symbiont relationships.

The study represents a first step towards improving understanding of symbiont relationships and their benefit or lack of benefit, for plant and insect species.

What is even more striking is the effect of symbiont absence on the host's metabolism.

Lichens are only one kind of symbiont; the fungi have many.

Still, since only a fraction of the symbiont population is harvested, the microbes likely benefit from the association with the host by gaining nutrition in the bug's gut and a secured transmission route to the next generation,» says Hassan Salem.

«Our results are a departure from previous findings and supporting monophyly instead of symbiont replacement,» said Boyd.

The findings provide a more detailed understanding of the symbionts» differences and similarities to organelles.

This is a pivotal consequence of life with symbionts, said Shapira, who believes that microbiotas, which involve many types of symbionts, represent an expanded version of this aphid - symbiont relationship.

The aforementioned research group demonstrated that the expulsion of zooxanthellae at 27 °C (non-thermal stress conditions) is part of a regulatory mechanism that maintains zooxanthellal density and a stable carbon concentration with expulsion of digested or normal forms of symbionts.

The authors advocate that stress exposure to natural stock, active modification of community composition of coral symbionts, selective breeding, and laboratory breeding of the symbionts all warrant research attention.

Different symbiont types can confer differential thermal tolerance [22], [23], and the types of symbionts harbored may change due to heat stress exposure, leading to increased bleaching resistance during later events [31].

Furthermore the symbiont community consists of hundreds of symbionts that have already adapted to a wide variety of temperature, irradiance and salinity variables within different microclimates over the past million years.

However within a colony, a wide variety of symbionts can be harbored within a small percentage of polyps, although one symbiont type typically dominates.

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

Sometimes by the same types of symbionts, sometimes by different ones.

Not exact matches

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People tend to attach feelings of goodness onto symbionts and feelings of evil onto predators and parasites.

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

«It's easy to get [these features] when you're essentially swallowing a symbiont,» says Hyman Hartman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies the origin of life.

Over time, the bacterium became a symbiont and transferred many of its metabolic genes to the host.

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

They conclude that the results of this study have implications for the progression of genome evolution in symbionts.

To do that, his lab performs comparative studies on the genetic characteristics of both the mutualistic symbiont and its «wild» progenitor.

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).

To find out if the symbionts help protect the aphids, Oliver's group injected bacteria - free aphids with three varieties of the bacteria — T - type, R - type, and U-type.

«This suggested that fungal symbionts that colonize plants which are deficient in lipid biosynthesis suffer from a lack of essential lipids,» says Andreas Keymer, a PhD student in Gutjahr's group and first author of the new study.

Many sap - eating insects rely on helpful bacteria, or symbionts, to make amino acids, but none of them has the citrus mealybug's nested microbes.

One noticeable beneficiary is beechdrops, a flowering plant devoid of chlorophyll that is a symbiont of...

One of the most interesting players is Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, or B. theta, the predominant bacterium of the human colon and a particularly bossy symbiont.

The study is the first to show conclusively that a bacterial symbiont can protect aphids against parasites, says Richard Stouthamer, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside.

But it is still unclear whether it will be possible to manipulate symbiont populations effectively in the wild, where environmental conditions might cause the corals to favour one type of alga over another.

Since then, studies have shown that clade D symbionts, in particular types D1 and D1a, are prevalent in a wide variety of corals that have survived extreme bleaching events.

A genome - level understanding of how the fungus Grosmannia clavigera, a symbiont of the mountain pine beetle, withstands its host tree's chemical defenses could help ecological modelers better forecast the range and extent of the epidemic

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.

There they genetically characterize corals and their symbiont algae and, in collaboration with Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, expose different corals to thermal stress to better understand mechanisms of differential bleaching.

«We found that commonly applied molecular methods did not give enough resolution to distinguish the dominant symbionts of Gulf corals from those in other parts of the world's oceans,» explains Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Head of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton.

With the acquisition of a number of key genes and lipids from a bacterial symbiont, it would be possible for Loki - type cells to evolve a primitive membrane trafficking machinery and compartmentalization.»

Grossman explains: «One theory that we are exploring is that under heat - stress conditions the corals eject the algal symbionts at night in order to avoid the production and accumulation of photosynthetically - derived toxic oxygen molecules during the day.

«We can confirm that this new type of alga is indeed the year - round prevalent symbiont across several dominant coral species from the Abu Dhabi coast of the United Arab Emirates,» he adds.

These symbiont algae produce sugars that contribute to the diet of the coral in return for shelter and nutrients that are vital for algal growth.

«If you move outside of the range of your enemies you could benefit, but if you move away from symbionts and decomposers, that could make it harder for them to get established.»

The combination of host and symbiont has allowed Tremblaya to cast off many of its genes, surviving with a genome size once thought to be impossible.

Similarly, plant cells probably acquired chloroplasts, which capture the energy of sunlight, from some early parasite or symbiont.