Striking biology! Makes one wonder whether this Stentor species at some point gulped its endosymbiont as a whole and somehow retained their nuclei as is? Could that possibly explain the crazy strings of semi-separate nuclei that Stentor has? Might be totally dreaming here..
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Wallace Marshall
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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