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. 2017 May 2:6:e27004.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.27004.

Gasping for air

Steven G Ball  1 , Ugo Cenci  1
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Gasping for air

Steven G Ball et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Transcriptomics is shedding new light on the relationship between photosynthetic algae and salamander eggs.

Keywords: Ambystoma maculatum; Oophila amblystomatis; RNA-seq; ecology; endosymbiosis; evolutionary biology; genomics; symbiosis; transcriptomics.

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The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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