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Specificity in dinomastigote-marine invertebrate symbioses: An evaluation of hypotheses of mechanisms involved in producing specificity

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Cell to Cell Signals in Plant, Animal and Microbial Symbiosis

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Abstract

It is now fairly well recognized that the symbioses between microalgae and invertebrates demonstrate specificity (Trench, 1979, 1987). The realization that specificity existed in such associations was not forthcoming until the specific identities of the interacting organisms were resolved, and this depended to a large extent on the isolation, culture and taxonomic analysis of the algae involved. After isolation and culture of the ‘zoochlorellae’ from the flatworm Convoluta roscoffensis, Parke and Manton (1967) identified the algae as the prasinophyte Tetraselmis (Platymonas) convolutae (Hori et al 1982), and the ‘zooxanthellae’ symbiotic with Convoluta convoluta were identified as the diatom Licmophora sp. by Apelt (1969) after they were isolated and brought into culture. Based on the isolation and culture of symbiotic dinomastigotes, D.L. Taylor (1971, 1974) could distinguish between the amphidinioid and gymnodinioid symbionts.

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    Robert K. Trench

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Trench, R.K. (1988). Specificity in dinomastigote-marine invertebrate symbioses: An evaluation of hypotheses of mechanisms involved in producing specificity. In: Scannerini, S., Smith, D., Bonfante-Fasolo, P., Gianinazzi-Pearson, V. (eds) Cell to Cell Signals in Plant, Animal and Microbial Symbiosis. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73154-9_23

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