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Meaning of symbiont from wikipedia

- interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. In 1879, Heinrich Anton...
- their plankton diet with the products of photosynthesis produced by these symbionts. The polyps interconnect by a complex and well-developed system of gastrovascular...
- There are two main types of symbiont transmissions. In horizontal transmission, each new generation acquires free living symbionts from the environment. An...
- Vertical transmission of symbionts is the transfer of a microbial symbiont from the parent directly to the offspring.  Many metazoan species carry symbiotic...
- Gut microbiota, gut microbiome, or gut flora are the microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, that live in the digestive tracts...
- concept has been generalized to include transmissions of infectious agents, symbionts, and cultural traits between humans.[citation needed] Because the evolutionary...
- woman, Jadzia lives in symbiosis with a long-lived creature, known as a symbiont, named Dax; Jadzia is Dax's eighth host. The two share a single, conscious...
- been the method by which the bacteria are introduced into adults. After symbionts are established in the midgut, they undergo substantial remodelling and...
- containing the symbiont, which are then eaten by newly hatched nymphs under natural conditions. Nymphs experimentally deprived of access to the symbiont exhibited...
- relationships with extracellular luminous bacteria. Atypical of luminous symbionts that live outside of the host's cells, the bacteria found in the lures...