Category: Evolution
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The sorcerer’s apprentices of photosynthesis
This is the third part of my series on Dinophysis. If you didn’t read the first and second part, go read them and come back! We’ve now seen how Dinophysis was finally cultivated in the lab: by feeding it with its prey, the ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. Both of these microbes thrive by acquiring chloroplasts from foreign origin.…
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On swimming
Swimming: the act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water. On our blue planet, many life forms were once faced with the same question: how do I move through that aqueous medium towards that prey/shelter/sexual partner over there? What I want to discuss here is how many possible answers there are to…
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