{"id":40180,"date":"2024-04-28T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40180"},"modified":"2024-04-28T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T13:21:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/04\/28\/word-of-the-day-957\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Endosymbiont<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An\u00a0<b>endosymbiont<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>endobiont<\/b>\u00a0is an\u00a0<a title=\"Organism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organism\">organism<\/a>\u00a0that lives within the body or cells of another organism. Typically the two organisms are in a\u00a0<a title=\"Mutualism (biology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mutualism_(biology)\">mutualistic<\/a>\u00a0relationship. Examples are\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nitrogen-fixing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nitrogen-fixing\">nitrogen-fixing<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Bacteria\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bacteria\">bacteria<\/a>\u00a0(called\u00a0<a title=\"Rhizobia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhizobia\">rhizobia<\/a>), which live in the\u00a0<a title=\"Root nodule\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Root_nodule\">root nodules<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Legume\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legume\">legumes<\/a>, single-cell\u00a0<a title=\"Algae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algae\">algae<\/a>\u00a0inside\u00a0<a title=\"Coral reef\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coral_reef\">reef-building<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Coral\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coral\">corals<\/a>\u00a0and bacterial endosymbionts that provide essential nutrients to\u00a0<a title=\"Insect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insect\">insects<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endosymbiont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2426468-a-bacterium-has-evolved-into-a-new-cellular-structure-inside-algae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Le Page, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (20 April 2024, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is quite common for one species\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2294704-genetically-engineered-bacteria-could-heal-us-from-inside-our-cells\/\">to live inside the cells of another<\/a>\u00a0in a mutually beneficial relationship called endosymbiosis. For instance, cells in the roots of legumes such as peas host nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The success of cockroaches\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21028081-400-the-secret-superpower-of-the-cockroach\/\">is partly due to endosymbiotic bacteria that produce essential nutrients<\/a>. Some cells even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2371017-evolutionary-oddball-has-seven-genomes-inside-a-single-cell\/\">host multiple endosymbionts<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endosymbiont: An\u00a0endosymbiont\u00a0or\u00a0endobiont\u00a0is an\u00a0organism\u00a0that lives within the body or cells of another organism. Typically the two organisms are in a\u00a0mutualistic\u00a0relationship. Examples are\u00a0nitrogen-fixing\u00a0bacteria\u00a0(called\u00a0rhizobia), which live in the\u00a0root nodules\u00a0of\u00a0legumes, single-cell\u00a0algae\u00a0inside\u00a0reef-building\u00a0corals\u00a0and bacterial endosymbionts that provide essential nutrients to\u00a0insects. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae,&#8221; Michael Le \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/04\/28\/word-of-the-day-957\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40181,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions\/40181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}