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What is an ecological Ectosymbionts?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

(a) algae and fungi (lichens)

(b) mycorrhizal fungi and plants

(c) nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plants

(d) algae and coelenterates

(e) gut symbionts and many organisms


b. Endosymbionts

(1) Example: mitochondria

c. Special case: chloroplasts and molluscs

(1) Herbivorous molluscs (sea slugs) incorporate chloroplasts from the algae that they eat into their own tissue and use the photosynthate.

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12y ago

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