Endosymbiosis is a close, prolonged physical and/or metabolic association between distinct organisms, one of which lives inside the body of the other, either within its cells or in extracellular spaces.
Please refer to entry “ Symbiosis ” for further reading. See also entries “ Cyanobacteria ,” “ Algae (Eukaryotic) ,” “ Diatoms ” and “ Fungi and Lichens ” for particular forms of endosymbioses.
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Reitner, J., Thiel, V. (2011). Endosymbiosis. In: Reitner, J., Thiel, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geobiology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9212-1_82
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