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The researchers suggest that examining the structures used by other endosymbiotic shrimp may reveal similar switches.

From Science Magazine • May 25, 2022

Molecular evidence supports that all Archaeplastida are descendents of an endosymbiotic relationship between a heterotrophic protist and a cyanobacterium.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

In contrast, the other algae—red, brown, golden, stramenopiles, and so on—all became photosynthetic by secondary, or even tertiary, endosymbiotic events; that is, they endosymbiosed cells that had already endosymbiosed a cyanobacterium.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

According to this hypothesis, a primary endosymbiotic event resulted in an ancestral eukaryotic cell acquiring a nucleus, and a secondary endosymbiotic event resulted in the acquisition of a mitochondrion.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The excessive warmth causes the coral organisms to expel their endosymbiotic, food-producing protists, resulting in a phenomenon known as bleaching.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013