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RESEARCH PRODUCT
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Roy GrossEvelyn ZientzFrancisco J. Silvasubject
Multicellular organismbiologySymbiosisEvolutionary biologyPhylogeneticsHost (biology)fungiDNA microarrayBuchnerabiology.organism_classificationGeneGenomedescription
Symbioses between unicellular and multicellular organisms have contributed significantly to the evolution of life on Earth. As exemplified by several studies of bacterium-insect symbioses, modern genomic techniques are providing exciting new information about the molecular basis and the biological roles of these complex relationships, revealing for instance that symbionts have lost many genes for functions that are provided by the host, but that they can provide amino acids that the host cannot synthesize.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-01-01 | Genome Biology |