symbiontophorous

English

Etymology

symbiont +‎ -phorous

Adjective

symbiontophorous (not comparable)

  1. Associated with symbionts
    • 2016 January 6, ““ Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”, a Novel “Stand-Alone” Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae ( Rickettsiales )”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145743:
      In electron micrographs, the tiny rod-shaped endosymbionts (1.2 x 0.25–0.35 μm in size) were not surrounded by a symbiontophorous vacuole and were located in the peripheral host cytoplasm, stratified in the host cortex in between the trichocysts or just below them.
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