Spotted salamander embryos hatching out of their egg capsules
ROGER HANGARTER
New research demonstrates that green algae not only grow inside of a spotted salamander egg, but enter cells within its body. Thus far, this is the only example of endosymbiosis in a vertebrate.
(See J.A. Burns et al., “Transcriptome analysis illuminates the nature of the intracellular interaction in a vertebrate-algal symbiosis,” eLIFE, doi:10.7554/eLife.22054, 2017.)
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