scientists reveal how a little-known amoeba engulfed a bacterium to become photosynthetic

Monday, October 10, 2016 - 14:21 in Biology & Nature

About 100 million years ago, a lowly amoeba pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing genes from an unsuspecting bacterium to replace those it had lost.

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