Organellogenesis, where an endosymbiont is transformed into an organelle within the host, is not well understood. In a recent study, researchers identified two novel dinoflagellates containing relic ...

The endosymbiont in A. deanei thus represents an intermediate stage between an endosymbiotic bacterium -- which is still genetically autonomous -- and an organelle, which is almost entirely controlled ...

Researchers tested whether heat tolerance among 5 species of aphids varies with heat sensitivity of the species' endosymbionts, and found that heat exposure--37-38 °C for 3-4 hours--reduced survival ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Mitochondria and plastids are organelles within eukaryotic cells that are thought to have derived from endosymbiotic bacteria and that, throughout evolution, have become entirely dependent on their ...

Researchers from Bremen, together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Genome Center in Cologne and the aquatic research institute Eawag from Switzerland, have discovered a unique bacterium that ...