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The paper Interspecies Microbial Fusion and Large-Scale Exchange of Cytoplasmic Proteins and RNA in a Syntrophic Clostridium Coculture [1]: > Here, transmissio
by sradman 6y ago
The paper Interspecies Microbial Fusion and Large-Scale Exchange of Cytoplasmic Proteins and RNA in a Syntrophic Clostridium Coculture [1]:
> Here, transmission electron microscopy and electron tomography demonstrated cell wall and membrane fusions between the two organisms, whereby C. ljungdahlii appears to invade C. acetobutylicum pole to pole.
Hopefully this gives insight into the mechanism underlying symbiogenesis [2] that influenced the evolution of life. Mitochondria and chloroplasts are the most important examples of symbiogenesis.
[1] https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/5/e02030-20 https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/5/e02030-20
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis