AQUATIC SYMBIOSIS GENOMICS

The Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project, jointly funded by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, seeks to provide the genomic foundations needed by scientists to answer key questions about the ecology and evolution of symbiosis in marine and freshwater species, where at least one partner is a microbe. By applying the latest genomic techniques and tools to 1,000 aquatic species, from 500 symbiotic relationships, the data will guide future studies and help to inform conservation efforts... Evolution is often characterised as a fight for survival, with individuals pitted against each other in the race to spawn the next generation. However, collaborations - where two distinct organisms build a relationship that is beneficial - are widespread. Every plant carries within it a once free-living, light-harvesting bacterium, and these chloroplasts are what allow plants to use sunlight to fix carbon. The chloroplast-plant collaboration is billions of years old,..

Registration numbers: 1021457 (W), 2742969 (W)

Primary location: Hinxton United Kingdom