Meanings
- uncountableThe study of the evolutionary origins and relationships of eukaryotic cells, especially the endosymbiotic theory of the evolution of many organelles.
The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation2 more examples
The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology.
1989 Fall, Arthur Fisher, “The Wheels Within Wheels in the Superkingdom Eucaryotae”, in Mosaic, volume 20, number 3, page 5Following an intense collaboration, endocytobiology was established as an area of research at the First [ Schwemmler and Schenk , 1980 ] and Second International Colloquium on Endocytobiology in Tübingen [Schenk and Schwemmler, 1983], and at the Third Colloquium on Endocytobiology held in 1986 at the Academy of Sciences in New York [Lee and Fredrick, 1987].
1998, Werner Schwemmler, Basic Cancer Programs, page 103
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