Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

The Lorelei Signal, owing a lot to the Sirens of mythology, is a critical example of women taking the initiative and taking ...

Researchers have uncovered a significant number of new fungal species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with findings ...

The college’s Visualizing Science competition finalists include the winning image of a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion by an ...

The animals were found at a depth around 3,720 feet below sea level. Related species have been found both “free-living” and as “symbionts,” meaning they live within another organism, researchers said.

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences ...

In a paper now published in The Plant Journal, the Kobe University team shows that when the orchid happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the ...

In a paper now published in The Plant Journal, the Kobe University team shows that when the orchid happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the ...

In order to become a parasite, the orchids need to switch from their usual symbionts to different fungi in order to handle this increased amount of food. The appropriate fungi only occur around ...

Here the authors show that lab mice have retained ancient gut bacterial symbionts that diversified in parallel with rodent species, but the genomes of these gut bugs have accumulated mutational ...

Key Laboratory of Coastal Environment and Resources Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, 310030 Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China State Key Laboratory of ...