16 November 2024
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A deep dive into the symbiotic relationships between eukaryotes (animals, plants, fungi, other uni-cells) and prokaryotes (single-celled organisms with no nucleus or organelles), focussing on the formation of symbiosomes – compartments housing a symbiont – in the simple eukaryotic organism Anaeramoeba. The study provides insights into mechanisms of host-cell adaptations and could throw light on symbiotic relationships between microorganisms and more complex life.
Read the published research article here
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- Still from video from work by Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist and colleagues
- Institute for Comparative Genomics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, November 2024
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