Living Together in the Plankton: A Survey of Marine Protist Symbioses

• Authors: O. Roger Anderson
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Our best evidence is that life arose in the marine environment, and over many millennia of evolutionary proliferation, punctuated by occasional massive extinctions, marine protists have developed remarkably elegant and sometimes complex relationships with prokaryotic and eukaryotic symbionts. Current evidence of the range of marine protist taxa possessing symbionts, including their diversity and physiological functional relationships, is reviewed within an ecological context. Some perspectives are presented on potential opportunities for new avenues of research in unraveling the remarkable adaptive value of two or more genetically diverse marine unicellular organisms living in a close structural and physiological relationship.

Keywords

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Algal symbionts, bacterial symbionts, marine endosymbiosis, microbial physiology, molecular genetics, plankton ecology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Journal: Acta Protozoologica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2014

online

11 - 09 - 2015

Contributors

author

O. Roger Anderson