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Over 80 years ago the Professor of Botany at the then University College of Reading in England, Frederick Keeble, published a small book (Keeble 1910). I discovered this book in 1985! In it he described his simple but elegant and imaginative experiments with the green and the yellow-brown marine platyhelminth worms Convoluta roscoffensis and C. paradoxa. He demonstrated, inter alia, that the relationship between these worms and their symbiotic photosynthetic algae is driven by the lack of available nitrogen in the environment.
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White, T.C.R. (1993). Introduction. In: The Inadequate Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78299-2_1
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