Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Plants with root nodules, for example, secrete compounds such as flavonoids when nitrates are scarce in the soil, helping to activate signaling pathways in nitrogen-fixing bacteria that then ...

In viewing these microbial communities, van Leeuwenhoek not only made the first recorded observations of living bacteria, but was also the first individual to observe a microbial symbiosis.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

"We were also able to demonstrate that horizontal gene transfer, a phenomenon that describes the incorporation of foreign genes from bacteria into the genome, is quite common in leaf beetles. Both ...

This nitrogen is used to optimize photosynthesis rates allowing autumn olive to grow significantly faster than native shrubs. Autumn olive engages in a symbiotic relationship with Frankia bacteria in ...

a phenomenon that describes the incorporation of foreign genes from bacteria into the genome, is quite common in leaf beetles. Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced ...

1 The microbiome’s role in providing nutrition or immunity is well-established, said Har­ald Gruber-Vodicka, a marine symbiosis researcher at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, who was not ...

These beneficial bacteria are housed in root nodules formed ... Other genes essential for early responses during nodule symbiosis also displayed oscillatory expression patterns, marking the ...