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Host-to-symbiont transfer of fatty-acid-derived carbon in the Paramecium bursaria-Chlorella variabilis photosymbiosis
Yanjun Chen, Chen Wei, Chia-Wei Hsu…·Jun‐Yi Leu
The paper investigates carbon transfer between Paramecium bursaria and its Chlorella symbionts, finding host-to-symbiont carbon transfer rather than the previously assumed algal-to-host direction.
DOI 10.1101/2025.11.27.690892