How to Use symbiont in a Sentence

symbiont

noun

• When Shori takes on another male symbiont, Wright punches a hole in the wall.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• The spirochete lives permanently as a symbiont in the patient.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
• Simon says the cicada is trapped in a 17-year cycle that has forced it to make unusual adaptations like living with this symbiont.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 21 May 2021
• One symbiont found in Costa Rica was hiding in plain sight: a beetle that clamps its mandibles around the ant’s middle and rides along, looking like a double-vision version of the ant’s backside.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
• In other words, can humans cultivate a better terrain for their symbionts?
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• Butler suggests that the Ina-symbiont relationship might be no worse than the forms of dependency that humans already take for granted.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Filaments of the protein actin, for example, could have stabilized contacts between the hosts and symbionts and improved the coupling of their metabolisms.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• For decades, researchers have known that mitochondria are derived from bacteria that became internal symbionts of archaeal cells, but details of how that happened have been sketchy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• When stressed by heat these symbionts start producing dangerous oxidants.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Bassler’s first foray into quorum sensing involved Vibrio fischeri, a symbiont that lives inside deep ocean animals.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 5 June 2013
• This jet forces out oxygen that accumulates in the middle of the polyp (thanks to its resident symbionts, photosynthetic algae called zooxanthellae).
  — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• In other sap-sucking insects, symbionts serve additional functions, Moran and her colleagues discovered.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 14 Nov. 2019
• Skillings and other critics argue that there just isn’t enough evidence of vertical transmission of symbionts to allow for the holobiont to be a coherent evolutionary individual.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2018
• Jenkins suspected that this stabilizing mechanism might involve the organisms’ RNA because his colleagues had noticed many regions of strong similarity between host and symbiont transcripts floating around in the cytoplasm.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• Certain algae species serve as symbionts for Cassiopea jellyfish, providing the animals with nutrients harvested from sunlight by way of photosynthesis.
  — Cheryl Ames, National Geographic, 13 Feb. 2020

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