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endosymbioses

endosymbioses is the plural of endosymbiosis.

Meaning of endosymbiosis

Noun

endosymbiosis (countable and uncountable, plural endosymbioses)

  1. The condition of living within the body or cells of another organism; an instance of an organism so living.
    • Interspecific associations are currently believed to take part in evolution by improving a partner's fitness through integrated endosymbioses or by causing reproductive isolation and subsequent host speciation, such as in the Wolbachia endosymbioses (Nardon and Grenier, 1991; Margulis, 1993a...2003, Abdelaziz Heddi, “5: Endosymbiosis in the Weevil of the Genus Sitophilus: Genetic, Physiological, and Molecular Interactions among Associated Genomes”, in Kostas Bourtzis, Thomas A. Miller...

Questions about endosymbioses

What is endosymbioses the plural of?
Endosymbioses is the plural of endosymbiosis.

Words near endosymbioses in the dictionary

  1. endosymbiogenetic
  2. endosymbiogenic
  3. endosymbiont
  4. endosymbiontic
  5. endosymbionts
  6. endosymbioses
  7. endosymbiosis
  8. endosymbiotic
  9. endosymbiotic theory
  10. endosymbiotically
  11. endosystolic

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