Sentences with phrase «symbionts evolved»
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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.»
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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.»
«Basic theory predicts that whenever a symbiont is preferentially transmitted through one sex, it will evolve [ways] to overproduce that sex,» explains John Werren, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Rochester in New York who was not involved with the work.
We will continue to study whether pathogens are exploiting mechanisms evolved to support symbionts and, hopefully, this will allow us to establish future crop plants that both benefit from symbionts whilst remaining more resistant to pathogens.
The outer mucus layer contains a population of friendly mucin - degrading bacteria — symbionts like Akkermansia who evolved to feed on our mucus.
And we now know those emergent eco-species can rapidly evolve with changing climates by shuffling and shifting those symbionts.
The most heat resistant symbionts belong to clade D, but other heat resistant types have evolved within other clades.