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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 Eukaryotic photosynthesis originated in the course of evolution as a result of the uptake of some unstored cyanobacterium and its transformation to chloroplasts by an ancestral heterotrophic eukaryotic cell.
I. Stadnichuk, V. Kusnetsov
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Mitochondrial evolution: Gene shuffling, endosymbiosis, and signaling
Science Advances, 2023 Genes for cardiolipin and ceramide synthesis occur in some alphaproteobacterial genomes. They shed light on mitochondrial origin and signaling in the first eukaryotic cells.
Parth K. Raval, W. Martin, Sven B. Gould
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Obligate endosymbiosis enables genome expansion during eukaryogenesis
Communications Biology, 2023 The endosymbiosis of an alpha-proteobacterium that gave rise to mitochondria was one of the key events in eukaryogenesis. One striking outcome of eukaryogenesis was a much more complex cell with a large genome.
Samuel H. A. von der Dunk +2 more
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Endosymbiosis allows Sitophilus oryzae to persist in dry conditions
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Insects frequently associate with intracellular microbial symbionts (endosymbionts) that enhance their ability to cope with challenging environmental conditions. Endosymbioses with cuticle-enhancing microbes have been reported in several beetle families.
Sthandiwe Nomthandazo Kanyile +3 more
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Eco-Evolutionary Perspectives on Mixoplankton
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Mixotrophy, i.e., the capability of both phototrophy and phagotrophy within a single organism, is a prominent trophic mode in aquatic ecosystems. Mixotrophic strategies can be highly advantageous when feeding or photosynthesis alone does not sustain ...
Joost Samir Mansour +2 more
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Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis
Nature Communications, 2022 The evolutionary origin of the photosynthetic eukaryotes drastically altered the evolution of complex lifeforms and impacted global ecology. The endosymbiotic theory suggests that photosynthetic eukaryotes evolved due to endosymbiosis between non ...
Jason E Cournoyer +7 more
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Surfing the vegetal pole in a small population: extracellular vertical transmission of an 'intracellular' deep-sea clam symbiont [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Symbiont transmission is a key event for understanding the processes underlying symbiotic associations and their evolution. However, our understanding of the mechanisms of symbiont transmission remains still fragmentary.
Tetsuro Ikuta +13 more
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Relevance of sex-differenced analyses in bioenergetics and nutritional studies
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Sex-biased analyses still remain as one of the biggest limitations to obtain universal conclusions. In biomedicine, the majority of experimental analyses and a significant amount of patient-derived cohort studies exclusively included males.
Glòria Garrabou +7 more
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Why is primary endosymbiosis so rare?
New Phytologist, 2021 Endosymbiosis is a relationship between two organisms wherein one cell resides inside the other. This affiliation, when stable and beneficial for the "host" cell, can result in massive genetic innovation with the foremost examples being the evolution of ...
Timothy G. Stephens +4 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Many insects harbor bacterial endosymbionts that supply essential nutrients and enable their hosts to thrive on a nutritionally unbalanced diet. Comparisons of the genomes of endosymbionts and their insect hosts have revealed multiple cases of mutually ...
Yukihiro Kinjo +5 more
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