Definition of Endosymbiont. Meaning of Endosymbiont. Synonyms of Endosymbiont

- An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism. Typically the two organisms are in a mutualistic relationship...
- distinguish organelles from endosymbionts – whole organisms living inside other organisms – by their reduced genome sizes. As an endosymbiont evolves into an organelle...
- Some Francisella species are pathogenic bacteria but some others are endosymbionts of ticks. Ticks do not use any other food source than vertebrate blood...
- genus Amphidinium, and other taxa, as yet unidentified, may have similar endosymbiont affinities. "Zooxant****a" was originally a genus name (meaning literally...
- bacterial and fungal endosymbionts reside is mostly unknown. Bacteriocyte location varies depending on the insect and endosymbiont type. These cells often...
- evolved to oxygenate the endosymbionts in an oxygen-poor environment, and/or to supply hydrogen sulfide to the endosymbionts. Thioautotrophic gammaproteobacteria...
- autotrophic algae called cryptomonads (or cryptophytes), which contain endosymbiont red algae whose internal chloroplasts (evolved via endosymbiosis with...
- (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria) and Gammaproteobacteria, occurring as endosymbionts within the vacuoles of Alviniconcha ctenidia (or molluscan gills). All...
- is a species of bacteria which was originally identified as a benign endosymbiont in plants, but has since been ****ociated with disease in humans and cattle...
- thought that mitochondria developed from prokaryotic cells which became endosymbionts living inside eukaryotes. Plants and various groups of algae have plastids...