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. 2019 Feb;11(1):26-28.
doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12716. Epub 2018 Dec 26.

Entities inside one another - a matryoshka doll in biology?

Tanja Woyke  1 , Frederik Schulz  1
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Entities inside one another - a matryoshka doll in biology?

Tanja Woyke et al. Environ Microbiol Rep. 2019 Feb.
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Figure 1
Matryoshka dolls, more commonly known as Russian or babushka dolls, are a set of wooden figures nested into each other. This ‘nested doll’ principle comes to mind when pondering about endosymbiosis in biology.
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