As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

Through co-evolution over countless generations, the endosymbionts eventually become an organelle called the mitochondrion. These stripped-down vestiges of their former bacterial selves evolved to ...

Ticks – small, spider-like creatures with six or eight legs and as small as a pencil point that feed on the blood of dogs, birds, and sometimes cats – are annoying and can be dangerous, so ...

In a previous study, Mehta's team showed that lab-generated cyanobacteria-yeast chimeras, or endosymbionts, can supply photosynthetically generated ATP to the yeast but don't provide sugars.

“Eukaryotic cells arose through endosymbiosis. Initially these endosymbionts had large genomes,” he explains, “but what is left now are just small remnants. The genes were transferred from ...

Cellular microbiology is the scientific study of the functions and properties of microbial cells. This discipline combines techniques and approaches of classic cell biology and microbiology. Here ...

Ticks – small, spider-like creatures with six or eight legs and as small as a pencil point that feed on the blood of dogs, birds, and sometimes cats – are annoying and can be dangerous, so ...