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Derek (Del) Pickard

@DelPickard

Microbiologist! I keenly ‘follow’ evolution from 3.5 billion years ago to the Burgess Shale era. 'Liberal' but not of the orthodox kind and so no affiliations!

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A cyanobacteria known as UCYN-A, living within the single-celled alga Braarudosphaera bigelowii has become an organelle newscientist.com/article/242646… What was once a symbiotic relationship is now more complex- The bacteria has become an essential 'organelle' with signs of genome loss

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