Open AccessEukaryotic Sexual Reproduction Evoked “with a Little Help from My Friends”
Author(s) -
James Umen,
Ursula Goodenough,
Joseph Heitman
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.038
Subject(s) - biology , reproduction , sexual reproduction , genetics , evolutionary biology
Bacteria and eukaryotes interact in many ways-from the microbiome that educates the mammalian immune system and enhances nutrition to relationships that are commensal, symbiotic, or parasitic. Now in an unexpected twist, King and colleagues have expanded the repertoire of prokaryotic influence over eukaryotic physiology to include mating.
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