Organisms across the tree of life form symbiotic partnerships with microbes for metabolism, protection and resources. While some hosts evolve extreme dependence on their symbionts, others maintain ...

This pandemic year has restricted international travel for humans. Not so for some microscopic bacteria in the ocean: They partner up with clams living in the sand beneath the shimmering waters of ...

Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts—the organism with which they live in symbiosis ...

Symbionts aren't vomocytosed, suggesting they interfere with immune pathways involving toll-like receptors (TLRs) of the host cell. TLRs help identify and remove invaders. In many animals, the MyD88 ...

While scientists cannot go back in time to verify this theory, they have discovered symbionts that infect cells, and provide evidence that endosymbiotic relationships can happen among microbes. In ...

In 2021, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, reported an astonishing new form ...

The study is titled "Heat-tolerant algal symbionts may prevent extirpation of the threatened elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, in Florida during intensifying marine heat waves." advertisement Phys.org ...

The high level of co-infection with multiple pathogens and symbionts has important implications for diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne diseases.

Heat-tolerant algal symbionts may prevent extirpation of the threatened elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, in Florida during intensifying marine heatwaves. Coral Reefs , 2025; DOI: 10.1007/s00338 ...

Adult fragments of a coral species can better tolerate bleaching and recover faster when treated with tougher heat-evolved symbionts, new research from the Australian Institute of Marine Science ...

TWO-TONE. Algal symbionts in Astrangia poculata make the right lobe of this coral mass darker than the left lobe, which contain no symbionts. The lobes absorb dissolved minerals at different rates. T.