photosymbiosis
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
photosymbiosis (countable and uncountable, plural photosymbioses)
- symbiosis in which one of the participants is capable of photosynthesis
- 2015 August 13, Christiane Schmidt et al., “Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend”, in PLoS ONE[1], volume 10, :
- To prove that P . calcariformata establishes a permanent photosymbiosis with algae we characterized its photosynthetic activity by Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometry.