A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...

Endosymbiosis is a fascinating biological phenomenon in which an organism lives inside another. Such an unusual relationship ...

Three biologists, a physicist and a health scientist from ETH Zurich have been awarded ERC Advanced Grants worth around 12 million euros. The ...

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During plant growth, the demand for energy necessitates an increase in the number of chloroplasts. This increase is achieved through chloroplast division, which begins with the formation of the ...

The genomic imprint of endosymbiosis / Christopher E. Lane. -- Adaptive radiation : the interaction of ecological opportunity, adaptation, and speciation / Jonathan B. Losos and D. Luke Mahler -- ...