Symbiotic relationships between eukaryotic hosts and bacteria range from parasitism to mutualism and may deeply influence both partners’ fitness. The presence of intracellular bacteria in the metazoan phylum Placozoa has been reported several times, but without any knowledge about the nature of this rela...
The leucite component was calculated from the relationship KAlSi3O8 = KAlSi2O6 + SiO2. Also shown are the compositions of the initial rock and the experimental glasses from a Vesuvius trachybasalt (sample VS96-5A) determined by Pichavant et al. (2014). More evolved compositions, ...
Their genomes are approximately 1.3–1.5 Mb in size with a larger assortment of protein coding genes (1100 and 1205, respectively), potentially reflecting the slightly more parasitic rather than mutualistic relationship with their hosts (Table 5) [50]. This still represents a marked genome ...