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A far from perfect host
2016-01-04 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Biologists at the universities of York and Exeter have published new research which shows that an ancient symbiosis is founded entirely on exploitation, not mutual benefit. The researchers concluded that a single-celled protozoa called Paramecium bursaria benefits from exploiting a green algae which lives inside it, providing its host with sugar and oxygen from photosynthesis. Scientists have been debating for decades whether symbioses, like the Paramecium-Chlorella association, are based on mutual...
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