symbiontophorous en · ADJ
Etymology
From symbiont + -phorous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Associated with symbionts
In electron micrographs, the tiny rod-shaped endosymbionts (1.2 x 0.25–0.35 μm in size) were not surrounded by a symbiontophorous vacuole and were located in the peripheral host cytoplasm, stratified in the host cortex in between the trichocysts or just below them.
2016 January 6, ““ Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”, a Novel “Stand-Alone” Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae ( Rickettsiales )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: