Example sentences for: symbiotic

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  • Training sets were chosen to be representative of, but obtained independently from, taxa participating in symbiotic associations for which a diagnosis of origin would be made.

  • For example, the origin of mitochondria appears as the second (not first) symbiotic event, and the origin of cyanobacteria comes before the oxygen-utilizing organelles, mitochondria.

  • The number of symbiotic events was important for our primary concern of estimating a timescale for the early evolution of eukaryotes.

  • It can grow in sand; it can grow in bogs; and because of a symbiotic relationship with a wide range of fungi, it can grow in stony or peaty lands that provide no nourishment to ordinary plants.

  • Until about five years ago, it was generally accepted that there was a prior period (before mitochondria) in the history of eukaryotes [ 2 26 ] . The basal position of eukaryotes lacking mitochondria (amitochondriate) in phylogenetic trees [ 27 ] was consistent with this supposition as was evidence from sequence signatures [ 6 ] . However, molecular phylogenetic studies of several proteins in recent years have suggested that some or all amitochondriate eukaryotes once possessed mitochondria in the past [ 9 ] . Based on this new evidence, most current models for the origin of eukaryotes assume only a single symbiotic or fusion event between an archaebacterium and an α-proteobacterium [ 8 28 29 ] .


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