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Did not know: eukaryotic cells ancestor was archaea (+ mitochondria from bacteria).
Many good stories which I am not going to transcribe.
The tsetse fly "tries hard to be a mammal" (live birth to a single grub, which it feeds with something milk-like). p149
hologenome – denoting the evolution of host+microbes as a unit, or other kinds of symbiosis – supposed to be a radical idea but seems pretty commonsensical to me.
Or not, it hides the conflicts between different organisms.
Ch 7 Mutually Assured Success
started to talk about biosynthetic pathways (for amino acids) and I perked up and said hey I know about those.
Apparently there are 10! amino acids animals can't produce on their own and rely on microbes? That I did not know.