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C1

Towards understanding an ultimately simple metaorganism: impact of symbiotic microbes and algae on developmental processes of Hydra and their adaption within the host

Inter-species interactions in the freshwater polyp Hydra between symbiotic algae and host cells had been the subject of research since decades since they not only

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C2

Effects of malnutrition on epithelia-microbe interactions in the intestinal tract of flies and mice

Maintaining the composition of the beneficial intestinal microbiota requires a homeostatic equilibrium between the microbial community and the intestinal epithelium that serves as the regulatory

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C3

The life cycle of the deep-sea Bathymodiolus metaorganism: symbiont transmission and colonization of the host gill epithelium

Chemosynthetic symbioses evolved independently multiple times in at least nine animal phyla and from at least 12 lineages of free-living bacteria. They were first discovered

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