SO ENDS this contemplation of hereditable endosymbionts, a half-way stop in the spectrum to engulfment of algae to make a permanent organelle such as a chloroplast and mitochondrion. Clearly, there are many examples in nature where critically important symbiotic organisms are inherited, mostly maternally, by a variety of mechanisms, ensuring that the offspring have immediate inoculations of these outsourced metabolic factories.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022