symbiontophorous

English

Etymology

From symbiont +‎ -phorous.

Adjective

symbiontophorous (not comparable)

1. Associated with symbionts
   • 2016 January 6, ““ Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”, a Novel “Stand-Alone” Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae ( Rickettsiales )”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In electron micrographs, the tiny rod-shaped endosymbionts (1.2 x 0.25–0.35 μm in size) were not surrounded by a symbiontophorous vacuole and were located in the peripheral host cytoplasm, stratified in the host cortex in between the trichocysts or just below them.