Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Endosymbiotic algal photosynthesis shapes diel transcriptome architecture in its ciliate host Paramecium bursaria
Md Mostafa Kamal, Yu‐Hsuan Cheng, Chia-Ling Yang…·Jun‐Yi Leu
This study shows that photosynthetic endosymbionts in Paramecium bursaria shape the host's daily gene expression patterns, with disrupted photosynthesis reverting these patterns to an aposymbiotic state.
DOI 10.64898/2026.03.31.715701