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Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is usable for life. Plants that fix nitrogen, such as legumes, do so by harboring symbiotic bacteria in root nodules. But a recent discovery upends that rule. In two recent pap
An international team of researchers has witnessed this evolutionary marvel unfolding between a species of oceanic algae and a bacterium.
An incredibly rare event that gave rise to the biological factories that first made complex life possible has been detected again.
Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part of the cell's machinery.
After years of work, an international team found evidence that a once-independent nitrogen-fixing microbe has become a permanent resident within algae cells