Daylight robbery
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Correspondence: William Wells wells@biotext.com
Genome Biology 2000, 1:spotlight-20000706-02 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20000706-02
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| Published: | 6 July 2000 |
© 2000 BioMed Central Ltd
Research news
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
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[http://www.nature.com/nature/] webcite
Nature magazine
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Ultrastructure of the photosynthetic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum.