photosymbiosis

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^[1], 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.

Related terms

• photosymbiont
• photosymbiotic