Photosymbiosis

Photosymbiosis is a type of symbiosis where one of the organisms is capable of photosynthesis.[1]

Examples

Examples of photosymbiotic relationships include those in lichens, plankton, and many marine organisms including coral, giant clams, and jellyfish.[2][3][4]

Significance

Photosymbiosis is important in the development, maintenance, and evolution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, for example through supporting soil formation, soil stabilization, and coral reef growth and maintenance.[5][6]

Photosymbiotic relationships where microalgae live within a heterotrophic host organism, is believed to have led to eukaryotes acquiring photosynthesis and the evolution of plants.[7]

References
  1. "photosymbiosis". Oxford Reference.
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  3. Decelle, Johan (2013). "New perspectives on the functioning and evolution of photosymbiosis in plankton: Mutualism or parasitism?". Communicative & Integrative Biology. 6 (4): e24560. doi:10.4161/cib.24560. PMC 3742057. PMID 23986805.
  4. Enrique-Navarro A, Huertas E, Flander-Putrle V, Bartual A, Navarro G, Ruiz J, Malej A, Prieto L. "Living Inside a Jellyfish: The Symbiosis Case Study of Host-Specialized Dinoflagellates, "Zooxanthellae", and the Scyphozoan Cotylorhiza tuberculata". Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  5. Gault J, Bentlage B, Huang D, Kerr A (2021). "Lineage-specific variation in the evolutionary stability of coral photosymbiosis". Science Advances. 7 (39): eabh4243. Bibcode:2021SciA....7.4243G. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh4243. PMC 8457658. PMID 34550731.
  6. Stanley Jr G, Lipps J (2011). "Photosymbiosis: The Driving Force for Reef Success and Failure". The Paleontological Society Papers. 17: 33–59. doi:10.1017/S1089332600002436. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  7. Decelle, Johan (2013). "New perspectives on the functioning and evolution of photosymbiosis in plankton: Mutualism or parasitism?". Communicative & Integrative Biology. 6 (4): e24560. doi:10.4161/cib.24560. PMC 3742057. PMID 23986805.


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