cytobiosis
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cytobiosis (uncountable)
- (biology) Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms exists within a cells of the other.
- 1983, Kwang W. Jeon, Intracellular Symbiosis, page 4:
- There is little or no probability of a nonphotosynthetic eukaryotic cytobiont existing in nonparasitic cytobiosis with a nonphotosynthetic host because of too great a similarity, and therefore competition, in nutritional requirements.
- 1990, Gerard M. Capriulo, Ecology of Marine Protozoa, page 328:
- In the more typical examples of cytobiosis described later, the cytobionts are located within the cytoplasm in small vacuoles or, more rarely, embedded within the cytoplasm itself.