Editorial: Algal symbiotic relationships in freshwater and marine environments
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Editorial on the Research Topic Algal symbiotic relationships in freshwater and marine environments Living organisms have never been solitary individuals and symbiotic relationships are challenging our very conception of the individual. Symbiosis, initially defined as a living together of different organisms (De Bary, 1879; Raval et al., 2022) represents a range of complex and intermingled relationships (mutualism, commensalism amensalism and parasitism). Although actively debated with numerous theories on the origin of eukaryotes, it is widely accepted that a metabolic symbiosis and successive endosymbioses were important in the evolution of eukaryotes and their diversification
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