photosymbiosis

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English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ symbiosis.

Noun

photosymbiosis (countable and uncountable, plural photosymbioses)

  1. symbiosis in which one of the participants is capable of photosynthesis
    • 2015 August 13, Christiane Schmidt et al., “Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
      To prove that P . calcariformata establishes a permanent photosymbiosis with algae we characterized its photosynthetic activity by Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometry.