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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Orchid's nutrient theft from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> sheds light on photosynthesis-parasitism continuum <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-n</span><span class="invisible">utrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.70045" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10</span><span class="invisible">.1111/tpj.70045</span></a></p><p>"When the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/orchid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orchid</span></a> Oreorchis patens happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbionts</span></a> to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ceasing to employ photosynthesis. As a result, the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> are bigger and produce more <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a>."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> corals are home to previously unknown <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> with extremely small genomes <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-11-deep-sea-corals-home-previously.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-11-deep-sea</span><span class="invisible">-corals-home-previously.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53855-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-53855-5</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genomics</span></a> </p><p>"the bacteria are the dominant <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbionts</span></a> of these <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corals</span></a> and live in a gelatinous layer of tissue that forms part of their immune system and transports nutrients... These bacteria don't even carry genes for obtaining energy from carbohydrates... their only source of energy is the amino acid <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/arginine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arginine</span></a>, provided by the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/coral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coral</span></a>."</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Scientists discover more <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mitochondria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mitochondria</span></a>-like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbionts</span></a> with surprising metabolic capacities <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-12-scientists-mitochondria-symbionts-metabolic-capacities.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-12-scientis</span><span class="invisible">ts-mitochondria-symbionts-metabolic-capacities.html</span></a></p><p>Genetic potential for aerobic respiration and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/denitrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denitrification</span></a> in globally distributed respiratory <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/endosymbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endosymbionts</span></a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54047-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-54047-x</span></a></p><p>"They found a unique <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacterium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacterium</span></a> that lives inside a ciliate (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a>) and provides it with energy... reminiscent of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mitochondria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mitochondria</span></a>, with the key difference that the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/endosymbiont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endosymbiont</span></a> derives energy from the respiration of nitrate, not oxygen."</p>
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