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Genome Biology20001:spotlight-20000706-02
https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-spotlight-20000706-02
© BioMed Central Ltd 2000
- Published: 06 July 2000
Keywords
- Cell Division
- Marine Ciliate
- Mesodinium Rubrum
Gustafson et al. report in the 29 June Nature that a marine ciliate, Mesodinium rubrum, steals organelles from ingested algae (Nature 2000, 405:1049-1052). Although M. rubrum does not appear to ingest other food, or to maintain permanent symbionts, the ingested organelles help the ciliate to keep photosynthesizing and to maintain a high level of cell division.
References
- Nature magazine, [http://www.nature.com/nature/]
- Ultrastructure of the photosynthetic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum.Google Scholar
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