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Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a symbiosis between a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and a single-celled eukaryotic alga.
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Unicellular cyanobacterium and alga symbiosis (Science)
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Diversity of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium and its host (Environ Micro)
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Coccolithophore (Wikipedia)
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