Symbiodinium genome reveals adaptations towards a symbiotic lifestyle

22 December, 2016

By ​sequencing the genome of Symbiodinium microadriaticum​​ Aranda et al. show that the duplication of carbon and nitrogen transporters in Symbiodinium may have facilitated a life in endosymbiosis with Cnidarians.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39734