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Mutualism (biology)
Senin, 2026-04-20 09:27:31

(especially in the past) to refer to mutualistic interactions, and it is sometimes used to refer to mutualistic interactions that are not obligate. Symbiosis...

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Mutualism
Senin, 2023-06-05 08:48:05

Look up mutualism or mutualistic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mutualism may refer to: Mutualism (biology), positive interactions between species...

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Symbiosis
Jumat, 2026-05-08 22:56:17

organisms". The term is sometimes more exclusively used in a restricted, mutualistic sense, where both symbionts contribute to each other's subsistence. This...

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Host (biology)
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 07:06:12

larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont). The guest is typically provided...

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Mycorrhiza
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:52:47

extracellularly as in ectomycorrhizal fungi. The association is normally mutualistic. In particular species, or in particular circumstances, mycorrhizae may...

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Sea anemone
Jumat, 2026-04-24 04:03:43

other species have similar adaptations and are also unaffected (see Mutualistic relationships). Most sea anemones are harmless to humans, but a few highly...

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Pseudomyrmex ferruginea
Sabtu, 2025-03-08 15:51:05

Central America. The ant and the acacia exemplify a coevolution of a mutualistic system, as described by evolutionary ecologist Daniel Janzen. P. ferruginea...

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Alloparenting
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 22:28:51

groups and social structures. The alloparent–young relationship can be mutualistic or parasitic, and between or within species. Cooperative breeding, joint...

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Acacia-ant symbiosis
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:35:54

Tetraponera penzigi are obligate and mutualistic symbionts, whereas C. sjostedti is facultative and the least mutualistic, and it even facilitates attack on...

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Ant colony
Kamis, 2026-04-30 01:41:08

this these ants have been known to form mutualistic interaction with different species like the mutualistic interaction between ants and hemipterans...

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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:49:11

wrasses, it eats parasites and dead tissue off larger fishes' skin in a mutualistic relationship that provides food and protection for the wrasse and considerable...

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Habitat fragmentation
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:24:14

mutualistic relationships while affecting antagonistic relationships, such as predation and herbivory, to a less degree. For example, the mutualistic...

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Ommatokoita
Selasa, 2026-02-17 05:35:44

was speculated that the copepod may be bioluminescent and thus form a mutualistic relationship with the shark by attracting prey, but this hypothesis has...

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Moraxella osloensis
Selasa, 2026-04-21 09:39:58

the gamma subdivision of the purple bacteria. Moraxella osloensis is a mutualistic symbiont of the slug-parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita...

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Xenohormesis
Kamis, 2026-01-29 22:05:01

are also many cases of mutualistic xenohormesis for the dispersal of a seeds and pollen. Though not all xenohormesis is mutualistic. Hormesis Howitz, Konrad;...

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Vertical transmission
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 10:44:53

offspring.  Many metazoan species carry symbiotic bacteria which play a mutualistic, commensal, or parasitic role.  A symbiont is acquired by a host via...

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Lichen
Kamis, 2026-05-21 14:59:27

species, along with bacteria embedded in the cortex, or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship. Lichens are the lifeform that first brought the term symbiosis...

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Microbiota
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 05:22:02

Microbiota are the range of microorganisms that may be commensal, mutualistic, or pathogenic found in and on all multicellular organisms, including plants...

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Skin flora
Rabu, 2026-05-27 07:45:22

non-pathogenic, and either commensal (are not harmful to their host) or mutualistic (offer a benefit). The benefits bacteria can offer include preventing...

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Rhizobium leguminosarum
Rabu, 2024-01-03 05:42:16

Rhizobium leguminosarum is a bacterium which lives in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with legumes, and has the ability to fix free nitrogen from...

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Obligate mutualism
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 15:09:57

symbiont, though the terms are often attributed arbitrarily. Obligate mutualistic relationships, where species are entirely dependent on each other for...

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Reticulated humming frog
Jumat, 2026-04-24 16:16:02

Peru. This frog often shares burrows with tarantulas in what may be a mutualistic or commensalistic symbiosis. This frog lives in lowland forests on flood...

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Tegeticula
Jumat, 2026-05-15 17:55:52

family Prodoxidae, one of three genera known as yucca moths; they are mutualistic pollinators of various Yucca and Hesperoyucca species. Tegeticula altiplanella...

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Communication in aquatic animals
Rabu, 2026-05-06 21:23:30

most common between prey and predator or between animals engaged in mutualistic symbiotic relationships. A blue whale song Blue whale sound recorded...

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Trichoderma
Minggu, 2025-06-29 05:37:37

symbionts. This refers to the ability of several Trichoderma species to form mutualistic endophytic relationships with several plant species. Trichoderma species...

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Serendipita indica
Minggu, 2025-12-28 10:46:21

various substrates. It has been found to promote plant growth during its mutualistic symbiotic relationship with a wide variety of plants. Experiments have...

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Perkinsela
Rabu, 2026-03-04 08:15:38

intracellular components of Neoparamoeba and their relationship is considered mutualistic. "Perkinsiella amoebae-like endosymbionts of Neoparamoeba spp., relatives...

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Cooperation
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:47:07

and with members of other species with whom they have (symbiotic or mutualistic) relationships. Humans cooperate for the same reasons as other animals:...

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Lactobacillus
Rabu, 2026-04-15 09:23:59

conditions and maintain ample populations. Lactobacillus exhibits a mutualistic relationship with the human body, as it protects the host against potential...

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Plant–animal interaction
Senin, 2025-10-13 16:52:32

predation, frugivory and herbivory, parasitism, and mutualism. Without mutualistic relationships, some plants may not be able to complete their life cycles...

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Fledgling (Butler novel)
Senin, 2026-05-18 05:37:31

injury, the Ina depend on humans to survive. Their relationships are mutualistic: the Ina's venom provides a significant boost to their humans' immune...

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Phryganoporus candidus
Selasa, 2025-06-24 06:49:52

their nests in various trees, bushes, and other plant-life. They have a mutualistic relationship with Acacia ligulata, and therefore prefer to build their...

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Red King hypothesis
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:46:59

The Red King hypothesis contrasts with the Red Queen hypothesis, where mutualistic and cooperative interactions favor the fitness of a set of individuals...

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Colletotrichum
Minggu, 2026-03-01 22:14:21

species in this genus are plant pathogens, but some species may have a mutualistic relationship with hosts. The history of the Colletotrichum genus is a...

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Parategeticula
Senin, 2026-02-23 03:50:40

family Prodoxidae, one of three genera known as yucca moths; they are mutualistic pollinators of various Yucca species. Parategeticula ecdysiastica Parategeticula...

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Boletus
Senin, 2026-01-05 18:53:32

been found to be ectomycorrhizal fungi, which means that they form a mutualistic relationship with the roots system of certain kinds of plants. More recently...

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Herbivore
Selasa, 2026-04-14 04:02:32

extract nutrients from plants. A large percentage of herbivores also have mutualistic gut flora made up of bacteria and protozoans that help to degrade the...

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Spider
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:11:39

Beltian bodies, a solid plant material produced by acacias as part of a mutualistic relationship with a species of ant. Juveniles of some spiders in the...

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Stegastes diencaeus
Kamis, 2026-05-21 11:02:25

of 12.5 cm in length. Longfin damselfish have been reported to have a mutualistic relationship with mysid shrimp of the species Mysidium integrum. The...

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Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 17:25:21

association with burrowing tarantulas, which is thought to represent a mutualistic relationship. Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata is a small frog of a snout–vent...

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Bacteria
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:36:02

such as hydrogen sulphide and methane, to energy. Bacteria also live in mutualistic, commensal and parasitic relationships with plants and animals. Most...

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Bird
Minggu, 2026-05-17 14:00:40

shoaling fish towards the surface. Some species of hornbills have a mutualistic relationship with dwarf mongooses, in which they forage together and...

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Epibiont
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:52:00

in which case one organism benefits at the expense of the other, or mutualistic, in which both organisms obtain some explicit benefit from their coexistence...

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Commensalism
Jumat, 2026-05-08 18:50:18

relationship between humans and some types of gut flora is commensal or mutualistic is still unanswered. Some biologists argue that any close interaction...

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Demodex brevis
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 16:12:56

benefit to the host, rather than parasites where the host is harmed, or mutualistic organisms where the host benefits. During a severe infestation, though...

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Night-blooming plants
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:13:15

angiosperms, from tropical rainforests to arid deserts, forming complex mutualistic relationships with nocturnal animals. Plants bloom at night, driven mainly...

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Plant
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:35:24

of plant species have fungi associated with their root systems in a mutualistic symbiosis known as mycorrhiza. The fungi help the plants gain water and...

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Honeydew (secretion)
Selasa, 2026-03-10 06:14:33

An aphid produces honeydew for an ant in an example of mutualistic symbiosis....

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Holistic community
Rabu, 2025-05-28 11:58:04

seems to be wrong in at least two essential respects: The concept of mutualistic organismic ecological community might firstly have been introduced by...

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Celastrus orbiculatus
Jumat, 2026-05-08 13:33:10

bittersweet's ability to outcompete native plant species is its ability to form mutualistic associations with mycorrhizal fungi, specifically arbuscular mycorrhizal...

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Blattabacterium
Kamis, 2026-02-19 04:10:41

Blattabacterium is a genus of obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacteria that are believed to inhabit all species of cockroach studied to date, with the...

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Boletinellus merulioides
Selasa, 2025-05-27 05:31:41

North America, where it grows on the ground near ash trees due to a mutualistic relationship with a species of aphid. The species was first described...

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Haemulidae
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:35:03

produce sounds by grinding their pharyngeal teeth. Some species engage in mutualistic relationships with cleaner gobies of the genus Elacatinus, allowing them...

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Parasitoid wasp
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:58:37

immediately. Some endoparasitic wasps of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea have a mutualistic relationship with polydnaviruses, the viruses suppressing the host's...

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Whalesucker
Minggu, 2025-10-19 22:39:59

so named because it attaches itself exclusively to cetaceans, in a mutualistic interaction. It is found worldwide in tropical and warm waters; in the...

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Agriculture in ants
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 11:02:39

their survival and offer benefits to the ants in return, creating a mutualistic relationship between their species. The agricultural practices of ants...

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Xenesthis immanis
Kamis, 2026-03-26 10:36:18

length width reaching 19–22 cm. It frequently displays a commensal or mutualistic relationship with the microhylid frog Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata. The...

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Ericoid mycorrhiza
Senin, 2025-04-28 22:40:15

The ericoid mycorrhiza is a mutualistic relationship formed between members of the plant family Ericaceae and several lineages of mycorrhizal fungi. This...

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Whale barnacle
Selasa, 2026-05-19 09:25:14

inflicting more damage while fighting, which would make the relationship mutualistic where both parties benefit; alternatively, some species may just increase...

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Cheating (biology)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 02:44:36

a benefit at the cost of other organisms. Cheating is common in many mutualistic and altruistic relationships. A cheater is an individual who does not...

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Fungus
Jumat, 2026-05-29 09:37:51

obtaining nutrients, including parasitism, saprobism, and the development of mutualistic relationships such as mycorrhiza and lichenization. Studies suggest that...

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Pea enation mosaic virus
Jumat, 2025-09-19 22:15:19

viruses, once classified as one, are now categorised as two separate, mutualistic viruses: Pea enation mosaic virus 1 is an Enamovirus Pea enation mosaic...

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Small hive beetle
Kamis, 2026-05-14 18:54:17

Aethina tumida, commonly known as the small hive beetle (SHB), is a beekeeping pest. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa, but has spread to many other regions...

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Mutualisms and conservation
Rabu, 2024-01-03 19:41:16

where two mutualistic partners are completely interdependent for survival and reproduction. Secondly, facultative mutualism, where two mutualistic partners...

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Myco-heterotrophy
Selasa, 2025-06-17 01:48:37

mycotrophy, though this term is also used for plants that engage in mutualistic mycorrhizal relationships. Full (or obligate) myco-heterotrophy exists...

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Viola rafinesquei
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 18:59:24

dormancy in the winter and flowers in the spring. V. rafinesquii holds a mutualistic relationship with ants, potentially aiding in reproduction. It held medicinal...

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Midge
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:50:59

relationships with many other organisms. These can be commensal, parasitic or mutualistic relationships. Many of the commensal relationships are found within the...

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Organism
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:44:25

criterion of high co-operation and low conflict, would include some mutualistic (e.g. lichens) and sexual partnerships (e.g. anglerfish) as organisms...

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Trophobiosis
Selasa, 2024-12-17 00:10:00

for consumption. Not all examples of ant trophobiotic interactions are mutualistic, with instances such as ants attracted to Cacopsylla pyricola feeding...

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Triplaris americana
Senin, 2025-08-18 05:38:36

southern Africa. This species of tree is a myrmecophyte and it has a mutualistic relationship with ants, including Pseudomyrmex triplarinus. This kind...

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Endosymbiont
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:06:02

or cells of another organism. Typically, the two organisms are in a mutualistic relationship. Examples are nitrogen-fixing bacteria (called rhizobia)...

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Permaculture
Kamis, 2026-05-14 00:11:01

Mycorrhizal fungi usually function in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with plants....

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Sepsis
Minggu, 2026-05-31 18:39:57

Sepsis Day. Some authors suggest that initiating sepsis by the normally mutualistic (or neutral) members of the microbiome may not always be an accidental...

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Remora
Kamis, 2026-05-14 18:24:23

host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray. It is probably a mutualistic arrangement as the remora can move around on the host, removing ectoparasites...

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Cotylorhiza tuberculata
Minggu, 2025-08-10 05:12:58

hosts in its body are paramount to the jellyfish's prosperity. These mutualistic microorganisms are also known as zooxanthellae, originating from the...

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Insectivore
Senin, 2026-05-25 22:43:46

plants, such as Roridula species, exploit the prey organisms mainly in a mutualistic relationship with other creatures, such as resident organisms that contribute...

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Semen
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 00:15:57

anti-microbial peptides cathelicidin and lactoferrin. In birds and mammals, mutualistic bacteria such as Lactobacillus have been detected in fluid transferral...

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Aphid
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:21:34

as well as an annoyance for gardeners. So-called dairying ants have a mutualistic relationship with aphids, tending them for their honeydew and protecting...

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Ant
Senin, 2026-06-01 00:00:17

co-evolution with other species has led to mimetic, commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships. Ant societies have division of labour, communication between...

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Ectosymbiosis
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:27:25

host and parasite – can also form mutualistic ectosymbiotic interactions. Bark beetles can work in a dynamic mutualistic fashion with fungi and mites attached...

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Native species
Minggu, 2026-06-07 12:35:06

For example, some plant species can only reproduce with a continued mutualistic interaction with a certain animal pollinator, and the pollinating animal...

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Scale insect
Senin, 2026-03-16 14:56:22

honeydew on which sooty mold tends to grow. The insects often have a mutualistic relationship with ants, which feed on the honeydew and protect them from...

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Nepenthes bicalcarata
Jumat, 2026-02-06 14:53:32

vine up to 40 m (130 ft) length. It is a myrmecophyte noted for its mutualistic association with a species of ant, Camponotus schmitzi. As an ant-fed...

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Myrmecophyte
Selasa, 2025-09-30 05:01:45

Myrmecophytes (/mərˈmɛkəfaɪt/; literally "ant-plant") are plants that live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different genera...

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Grizzly bear
Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:31:05

several relationships with its ecosystem. One such relationship is a mutualistic relationship with fleshy-fruit bearing plants. After the grizzly consumes...

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Beetle
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:43:41

Chemically mediated by a bacterially produced polyunsaturated peroxide, this mutualistic relationship between the beetle and the fungus is coevolved. About 90%...

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Elaiosome
Kamis, 2024-10-31 03:54:33

dance" (khoreíā). This type of symbiotic relationship appears to be mutualistic, more specifically dispersive mutualism according to Ricklefs, R.E. (2001)...

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Utricularia purpurea
Jumat, 2025-11-21 06:20:25

zooplankton, and debris in the bladders that indicates U. purpurea favors a mutualistic interaction in place of a predator–prey relationship. U. purpurea has...

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Leech
Rabu, 2026-04-08 04:35:12

medicinalis, these supplementary factors are produced by an obligatory mutualistic relationship with the bacterial species, Aeromonas veronii. Non-bloodsucking...

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Pitcher plant
Selasa, 2026-05-19 05:17:27

help capture crawling insects such as ants. Some pitcher plants contain mutualistic insect larvae, which feed on trapped prey, and whose excreta the plant...

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Mycotroph
Selasa, 2026-03-10 12:09:35

either of two distinct symbioses with fungi: Many mycotrophs have a mutualistic association with fungi in any of several forms of mycorrhiza. The majority...

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Lenisia
Rabu, 2025-12-10 17:21:53

tidal flat in the Wadden Sea. Lenisia limosa had been noted for its mutualistic interactions with Arcobacter sp., a finding seen in a multitude of breviates...

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Domestication
Kamis, 2026-05-07 05:51:31

Domestication is a multi-generational mutualistic relationship in which an animal species, such as humans or leafcutter ants, takes over control and care...

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Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides
Minggu, 2025-06-29 13:39:33

Cecidomyiidae. Their galls and larvae thrive in association with the mutualistic relationship between Formica neoclara and Chaitophorus aphids found on...

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Agaonidae
Selasa, 2026-04-07 15:07:09

pollinating wasps (Agaoninae, Kradibiinae, and Tetrapusiinae) are the mutualistic partners of the fig trees. Extinct forms from the Eocene and Miocene...

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Micrarchaeota
Kamis, 2026-03-26 19:44:40

co-evolved with Thermoplasmatales, due to Micrarchaeota often being in mutualistic relationships with Thermoplasmatales. Whilst many species of the Nanobdellati...

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Marsh frog
Kamis, 2025-10-02 20:59:32

buffalo so they could eat the flies attracted to it, hinting at a possible mutualistic relationship. As tadpoles, they eat a wide range of organic matter including...

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Euwallacea validus
Jumat, 2026-01-30 23:52:34

Like other Euwallacea species beetles, E. validus is known for its mutualistic symbiotic relationship with fungi, acting as a vector for Fusarium oligoseptatum...

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Triactis
Jumat, 2026-05-08 18:21:29

its energy needs from the symbiotic algae it contains. It also forms a mutualistic relationship with small Lybia crabs. Triactis producta is a small, cryptic...

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Myrmecophily
Kamis, 2026-05-07 16:38:54

(/mɜːrməˈkɒfəli/ mur-mə-KOF-ə-lee, lit. 'love of ants') consists of positive, mutualistic, interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms...

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Hazel
Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:15:05

is not related to this genus. At least 21 species of fungus have a mutualistic relationship with hazel. Lactarius pyrogalus grows almost exclusively...

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Hypha
Minggu, 2026-02-22 19:23:18

that function in absorption within the host cells. The arbuscules of mutualistic mycorrhizal fungi serve a similar function in nutrient exchange, so are...

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Leafcutter ant
Jumat, 2026-04-24 21:10:30

freshly cut plant material and keeping it free from pests and molds. This mutualistic relationship is further augmented by another symbiotic partner, a bacterium...

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Alpheidae
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 13:36:35

warfare. Some snapping shrimp species share burrows with goby fish in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship: the burrow is built and tended by the pistol...

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Treehopper
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:54:09

mutualisms with wasps, such as Parachartergus apicalis. Even geckos form mutualistic relations with treehoppers, with whom they communicate by small vibrations...

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Marilyn J. Roossinck
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:14:16

evolution of RNA viruses and plants, particularly her work demonstrating mutualistic relationships between viruses and their hosts. Roossinck grew up in rural...

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Zooxanthellae
Rabu, 2026-04-15 06:50:57

Degenerate cysts are present in clusters, though rare, and lose much of their mutualistic benefit to the host they reside in due to a decrease in photosynthetic...

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Snow pea
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:13:22

their root nodules, which fix nitrogen in the soil—this is called a mutualistic relationship—and are therefore a useful companion plant, especially useful...

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Lepidoptera
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:09:51

wherein each individual involved benefits in some way. An example of a mutualistic relationship would be that shared by yucca moths (Tegeculidae) and their...

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Silver-studded blue
Jumat, 2026-02-20 20:16:38

nests of Lasius niger, the ant with which they form a mutualistic relationship. This mutualistic relationship benefits the adult butterfly by reducing...

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Azteca (ant)
Senin, 2026-04-20 13:30:25

fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species have mutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genus Cecropia...

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Klebsiella oxytoca
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 03:41:25

important environmental reservoir. Houseflies (Musca domestica) have a mutualistic relationship with the bacterium K. oxytoca. This bacterium can live on...

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Formica neoclara
Rabu, 2025-05-28 19:54:50

the family Formicidae. It is a generalist that has been known to have mutualistic relationships with 42 different species of aphids. "Formica neoclara...

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Cleaner fish
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:48:39

00182. ISSN 2296-701X. Soares, Marta C. (2017). "The Neurobiology of Mutualistic Behavior: The Cleanerfish Swims into the Spotlight". Frontiers in Behavioral...

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Myrmecochory
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:29:11

the parent plant, myrmecochores also benefit from this predominantly mutualistic interaction through dispersal to favourable locations for germination...

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Botany
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:21:16

adaptation of plants to their environment, and their competitive or mutualistic interactions with other species. Some ecologists even rely on empirical...

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Ecological network
Rabu, 2025-12-10 06:00:49

specialists (species with few links, all shared with the generalists). In mutualistic networks, nestedness is often asymmetrical, with specialists of one guild...

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Calopteron discrepans
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 07:41:46

known to engage in mutualistic relationships with various organisms, especially fungi and plants. One of the notable mutualistic interactions involves...

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Evolutionary game theory
Selasa, 2026-04-28 21:06:06

dynamic differs between competitive systems and mutualistic systems. In competitive (non-mutualistic) inter-species coevolutionary system the species...

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Protist
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:26:34

populations, and release nutrients to other trophic levels. Some form mutualistic relationships with other protists or animals such as corals and termites...

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Human microbiome
Selasa, 2026-05-12 00:23:20

commensal, meaning they co-exist without harming humans; others have a mutualistic relationship with their human hosts. Conversely, some non-pathogenic...

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Acromyrmex
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:29:45

physically cutting out sections of leaf from a variety of plants. This mutualistic relationship is further augmented by another symbiotic partner, a bacterium...

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Selfishness
Minggu, 2025-12-28 15:15:56

which could be considered as a mutualistic behavior. But species choose to have mutualistic behaviors, because the mutualistic behaviors could provide them...

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Urera baccifera
Sabtu, 2024-04-20 10:15:04

Pleuroptya silicalis. This provides a benefit for both plant and ant in a mutualistic relationship. NRCS. "Urera baccifera". PLANTS Database. United States...

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Interspecies friendship
Senin, 2026-05-18 11:44:48

protect her from injuries. Coyotes are often known to hunt badgers, but mutualistic relationships can develop between these rival species. Coyotes and badgers...

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Scaly-throated honeyguide
Selasa, 2026-04-14 19:28:38

variegatus) is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. They have a mutualistic relationship with humans in which they attract beekeepers towards bees'...

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Curvularia protuberata
Kamis, 2026-05-07 03:17:42

protuberata is a species of fungus in the family Pleosporaceae. It forms a mutualistic relationship with Dichanthelium lanuginosum (panic grass) and Curvularia...

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Rubiaceae
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:51:21

Myrmephytum, and Squamellaria are succulent epiphytes that have evolved a mutualistic relationship with ants. Their hypocotyl grows out into an ant-inhabited...

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Xenorhabdus
Kamis, 2026-01-01 22:39:57

Xenorhabdus-nematode-insect interaction represents a model system in which both mutualistic and pathogenic processes can be studied in a single bacterial species...

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Confused flour beetle
Jumat, 2026-05-08 02:47:10

flour beetle displays mutualistic behaviors with the Wolbachia bacteria. The Wolbachia bacteria can display either mutualistic or parasitic behaviors...

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American toad
Kamis, 2026-02-05 05:49:23

ants, spiders, slugs and worms. Studies have shown that they have a mutualistic relationship with Chlorogonium algae, which makes tadpoles develop faster...

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Complex system
Jumat, 2026-05-22 17:50:37

Bascompte, Jordi; Scheffer, Marten (2020). "Foreseeing the future of mutualistic communities beyond collapse". Ecology Letters. 23 (1): 2–15. Bibcode:2020EcolL...

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Steinernematidae
Rabu, 2023-10-25 11:10:52

Entomopathogenic nematodes and their bacterial symbionts: The inside out of a mutualistic association. Symbiosis, 46(2), 65–75. Retrieved from https://www.scopus...

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Oxpecker
Senin, 2026-05-18 19:06:17

; Tryjanowski, P. (2018). "Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet...

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Hummingbird
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:10:03

coevolutionary association, generally called a plant–bird syndrome or mutualistic network. By collecting pollen on their beaks while foraging from flowers...

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Bee
Jumat, 2026-05-22 15:10:03

called acarinaria that serve as lodgings for mites, demonstrating a mutualistic relationship. Mites residing in these acarinaria can benefit their bee...

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Mexican agouti
Senin, 2026-04-06 14:00:37

done on mutualistic interactions in other agouti species, which are believed to exhibit similar behaviours to D. mexicana. The major mutualistic relationship...

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Escherichia coli
Rabu, 2026-04-15 01:38:53

mutually beneficial relationships between E. coli and humans are a type of mutualistic biological relationship—where both the humans and the E. coli are benefitting...

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Wasp
Kamis, 2026-04-30 22:10:35

on their fig trees for survival, the coevolved relationship is fully mutualistic. Most solitary wasps are parasitoids. As adults, those that do feed typically...

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List of endophytes
Senin, 2026-03-23 05:00:02

endosymbionts, without causing symptoms of disease. Some of them are mutualistic symbionts with beneficial effects on their host, such as improved growth...

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Lecanopteris sinuosa
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 13:12:39

that belongs to the fern genus Lecanopteris. This epiphytic plant has a mutualistic relationship with stingless shelter ants, which makes it a myrmecophyte...

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Allomone
Kamis, 2023-11-02 22:54:28

benefit the emitter. An example of the first relationship would be a mutualistic relationship, and the latter would be a repellent secretion." Antibiotics...

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Lasius alienus
Rabu, 2025-12-10 03:55:34

lays eggs near nests of the ant L. alienus, forming a mutualistic relationship. This mutualistic relationship benefits the adult butterfly by reducing...

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Intentional community
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:27:40

communistic society, collective settlement, communal society, commune, mutualistic community, communitarian experiment, experimental community, utopian...

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Carnivorous plant
Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:29:10

the pitcher. Once within the pitcher structure, digestive enzymes or mutualistic species break down the prey into an absorbable form for the plant. Water...

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Immunotherapy
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:39:47

Helminths' relationship to humans as hosts should be classified as mutualistic or symbiotic. In some ways, the relationship is symbiotic because the...

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Paramecium bursaria
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 01:36:14

is a species of ciliate found in marine and brackish waters. It has a mutualistic endosymbiotic relationship with green algae called Zoochlorella. About...

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Lycaenidae
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:59:49

ants, a relationship called myrmecophily. These associations can be mutualistic, parasitic, or predatory depending on the species. In some species, larvae...

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Thomisus onustus
Kamis, 2026-01-01 01:33:11

late summer or early spring. Furthermore, T. onustus have developed a mutualistic relationship with host plants where spiders feed on and/or deter harmful...

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Novymonas
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:22:19

bug, and is in turn a host to symbiotic bacteria. It maintains strict mutualistic relationship with the bacteria as a sort of cell organelle (endosymbiont)...

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Tree
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:49:19

the hyphae of fungi. Many of these are known as mycorrhiza and form a mutualistic relationship with the tree roots. Some are specific to a single tree...

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Brown-throated sloth
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:14:49

trace nutrients in their claws, that are then ingested; and 5) favor a mutualistic relationship with populations of fur moths. More recently, a new hypothesis...

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Anthecology
Kamis, 2024-05-09 05:56:01

Pollination-related interactions between plants and insects are considered mutualistic, and the relationships between plants and their pollinators have likely...

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Mycobiome
Rabu, 2026-04-15 08:01:29

in an endophytic relationship or as a pathogen. Most plants also form mutualistic relationships with fungi that accelerate nutrient uptake among their...

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Coevolution
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:02:01

more species which reciprocally affect each other, sometimes creating a mutualistic relationship between the species. Such relationships can be of many different...

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Archaeplastida
Senin, 2026-05-25 19:06:23

which did not result in intracellular digestion but instead achieved mutualistic symbiosis within the endomembrane system. In contrast, other photosynthetic...

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Evolving digital ecological network
Jumat, 2025-01-24 07:40:33

selection, is shaped by the architecture of food webs, plant-animal mutualistic networks, and host-parasite communities. The concept of diffuse coevolution...

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Rusticle
Kamis, 2026-01-15 14:32:38

The remainder of the structure is a complex community of symbiotic or mutualistic microbes including bacteria Halomonas titanicae and fungi that use the...

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Black garden ant
Kamis, 2026-04-09 23:25:59

butterfly lays eggs near nests of L. niger, forming a mutualistic relationship. This mutualistic relationship benefits the adult butterfly by reducing...

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Stichodactyla
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 02:01:05

Stichodactylidae. They are host anemones, which maintain a relationship mutualistic with other animals, in their case with crabs of the genus Mithraculus...

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Leptoseris
Jumat, 2025-01-31 18:00:37

depths ranging from shallow to extreme depths (over 100m). They have a mutualistic relationship with microalgae called Symbiodinium that gives them the...

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Syntrophy
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 04:20:54

Thus, syntrophy can be considered an obligatory interdependency and a mutualistic metabolism between different microbial species, wherein the growth of...

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Parasitism
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:36:20

entirely successful. Many plants and fungi exchange carbon and nutrients in mutualistic mycorrhizal relationships. Some 400 species of myco-heterotrophic plants...

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Kerry Knudsen
Jumat, 2025-12-05 06:38:36

photobiont within lichen-forming fungi, in that the fungus may form a mutualistic association with different photobionts depending on environmental conditions...

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Ascomycota
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:08:43

Several species colonize plants, animals, or other fungi as parasites or mutualistic symbionts and derive all their metabolic energy in form of nutrients...

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Demodex folliculorum
Senin, 2026-04-20 06:41:57

Raghallaigh, S; Powell, FC (2011). "Demodex mites – commensals, parasites or mutualistic organisms?". Dermatology. 222 (2): 128–30. doi:10.1159/000323009. PMID 21228556...

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Pseudomonadota
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:23:36

Betaproteobacteria in the oral cavity. Pseudomonadota bacteria have a symbiotic or mutualistic association with plant roots, an example being in the rhizomes of potato...

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Predator satiation
Minggu, 2024-10-06 22:36:57

contrast to predator satiation, a different pattern is seen in response to mutualistic consumers, which benefit an organism by feeding from it (such as frugivores...

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Betula pendula
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:13:18

tree commonly grows with the mycorrhizal fungus Amanita muscaria in a mutualistic relationship. This applies particularly to acidic or nutrient-poor soils...

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Stromatoporoidea
Senin, 2026-04-20 05:39:39

studies have argued that stromatoporoids were mixotrophs (engaged in a mutualistic relationship with photosynthetic algae), similar to modern scleractinian...

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Aliivibrio fischeri
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 17:00:32

and bioluminescence, which are crucial for the mutualistic relationship with the squid. This mutualistic symbiosis provides A. fischeri with nutrients...

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Formica fusca
Senin, 2026-01-12 07:21:40

Mutualistic Formica fusca ants tending a herd of mealybugs...

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Hartig net
Kamis, 2026-05-21 17:46:52

the mantle into the surrounding soil. The Hartig net is the site of mutualistic resource exchange between the fungus and the host plant. Essential nutrients...

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Ant garden
Selasa, 2024-10-08 21:45:45

An ant garden is a mutualistic interaction between certain species of arboreal ants and various epiphytic plants. It is a structure made in the tree canopy...

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Trollius
Senin, 2026-05-18 19:38:16

adults facilitate pollination. This creates a specialized and stable mutualistic interaction. Some species of the genus Trollius are popular ornamental...

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Yeast
Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:12:41

recorded as a partner in a complex relationship between ants, their mutualistic fungus, a fungal parasite of the fungus and a bacterium that kills the...

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Rice polyculture
Jumat, 2025-10-03 09:36:58

agro-ecological benefits. Pairings such as rice and fish or rice and ducks form a mutualistic relationship: they both benefit from growing together. The rice provides...

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Rice-fish system
Minggu, 2026-04-05 13:54:01

Agricultural Heritage Systems to be recognized by the FAO. Rice and fish form a mutualistic relationship: they both benefit from growing together. The rice provides...

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Esperanza Martínez-Romero
Selasa, 2026-03-03 21:44:29

L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in 2020. Martínez-Romero studies the mutualistic symbioses of bacteria with Mexico's plants and animals using metagenomics...

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Pollination network
Selasa, 2026-04-14 12:51:38

A pollination network is a bipartite mutualistic network in which plants and pollinators are the nodes, and the pollination interactions form the links...

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Anti-Amhara sentiment
Rabu, 2026-01-07 05:08:54

relations between Amhara nationalist and Eritrea in the Tigray War is mutualistic cooperation in present-day; both Amharan regional armies and local militias...

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Marine worm
Rabu, 2026-04-22 07:57:44

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis". PLOS ONE. 12 (9) e0184311....

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Rove beetle
Selasa, 2026-05-19 13:28:18

to live as inquilines in ant and termite colonies, and some live in mutualistic relationships with mammals whereby they eat fleas and other parasites...

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Myrmecodia
Jumat, 2026-02-20 14:06:32

Myrmephytum, and Squamellaria. Myrmecophytes, or ant plants, live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. These plants possess structural adaptations...

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Cecropia schreberiana
Selasa, 2026-01-13 15:59:30

urban locations, and other disturbed areas. Cecropia schreberiana has a mutualistic relationship with ants from the genus Azteca. The biting ants inhabit...

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Phocaeicola vulgatus
Rabu, 2026-05-06 04:19:25

Phocaeicola vulgatus, (formerly Bacteroides vulgatus), is a mutualistic anaerobic Gram negative rod bacteria commonly found in the human gut microbiome...

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Ecological evolutionary developmental biology
Minggu, 2026-01-04 21:23:26

The relationship between clownfish and anemones is one example of a mutualistic symbiosis. Mutualisms are particularly common between ectotherms, making...

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Alfalfa
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:40:11

carbohydrates for growth and return usable nitrogen to the plant. This mutualistic interaction improves soil nitrogen fertility as plant matter is accumulated...

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Tryptamine
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 03:25:58

be inactive at the serotonin 5-HT1A receptor. Tryptamine produced by mutualistic bacteria in the human gut activates serotonin GPCRs ubiquitously expressed...

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Venom
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:29:25

Kansas. Mebs, Dietrich (15 December 2009). "Chemical biology of the mutualistic relationships of sea anemones with fish and crustaceans". Toxicon. Cnidarian...

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Nutcracker (bird)
Selasa, 2026-05-19 05:11:53

Raad, J.; et al. (2022). "Speciation and population divergence in a mutualistic seed dispersing bird". Communications Biology. 5 (429): 1–10. doi:10...

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Tragedy of the commons
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:02:01

when environmental resources are low, they tend to be cooperative and mutualistic. Ecological studies have hypothesised that competitive forces between...

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Ralfsia verrucosa
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:07:34

in temperate waters around the world. In South Africa it is part of a mutualistic relationship with a limpet. Ralfsia verrucosa forms roughly circular...

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Goodman's mouse lemur
Minggu, 2026-05-31 08:16:12

show much if any relation with those they sleep with. In addition to mutualistic sleeping behavior, these lemurs share another positive social interaction...

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Vavilovian mimicry
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:25:43

wheat. Finally, in the case of secondary crops, it can be considered mutualistic, as both the rye, and the farmer who grows and eats it, benefit from...

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Epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in the plant kingdom
Rabu, 2025-12-24 14:59:04

be harder to accurately describe than was once thought. The primary mutualistic interaction between transposon and host organism is in the formation...

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Common blue
Senin, 2026-03-30 20:50:50

between these ants and blue common larvae is described to be facultatively mutualistic. There are five instars of larvae. During the first instar, larva emerge...

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Hookworm
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:46:02

If humans and hookworm co-evolved together over millions of years in mutualistic ways, as some scientists theorize, this would make some sense. Hookworm...

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Pollination
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 05:46:42

Melián CJ, Olesen JM (August 2003). "The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...

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Clownfish
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:09:18

further from the anemone than the smaller subordinates. Clownfish have a mutualistic and symbiotic relationship with sea anemones. They acclimate themselves...

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Fig wasp
Kamis, 2026-04-23 23:39:55

each independently colonized the syconium. These wasps work around the mutualistic relationship, exploiting fig fruits as parasitoids. Most figs (more than...

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Conservation of fungi
Selasa, 2026-04-07 05:28:23

through unique and complex ecological relationships. Fungi can have mutualistic, symbiotic, or parasitic relationships. 90% of all plant species have...

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Roridula dentata
Minggu, 2024-04-28 06:10:01

nitrogen from the droppings of the insects, resulting in an obligate mutualistic relationship. This relationship is effectively indirect carnivory, which...

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Insect
Jumat, 2026-05-22 17:39:50

to communicate between species; lycaenid caterpillars, which form a mutualistic association with ants communicate with ants in this way. The Madagascar...

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Coyote
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:11:28

in hunting, presumably to avoid humans. Coyotes may occasionally form mutualistic hunting relationships with American badgers, assisting each other in...

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Hemiptera
Jumat, 2026-05-22 08:52:53

eating the honeydew that these hemipterans secrete. The relationship is mutualistic, as both ant and aphid benefit. Ants such as the yellow anthill ant,...

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Fire ant
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:55:41

days of extremely low temperatures. Fire ants have been known to form mutualistic relationships with several species of Lycaenidae and Riodinidae butterflies...

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Subulatomonas
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:51:18

W.; Roger, Andrew J. (2016-06-09). "Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts". Nature. 534 (7606): 254–258. Bibcode:2016Natur...

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Mycelium
Selasa, 2026-02-24 05:33:30

biomass measures fail to detect them. Some 83% of plants appear to exhibit mutualistic association with mycelium as an extension of their root systems, with...

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Red-billed oxpecker
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 23:13:44

Tryjanowski P. (March 19, 2018). "Large-Scale Assessment of Commensalistic–Mutualistic Associations Between African Birds and Herbivorous Mammals Using Internet...

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Pollinator
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:23:05

Melián CJ, Olesen JM (August 2003). "The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...

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Forelius pruinosus
Jumat, 2025-07-18 05:05:59

species generally feeds on nectar and invertebrates and are found to have mutualistic relationships with various insect and plant species. Reproductive alates...

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Trans-2-Hexenal
Selasa, 2025-09-30 05:48:11

inhibit the growth of fungal pathogens. It is also implicated in the mutualistic relationship between Acacia and related trees and their ant partners...

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Entomophily
Rabu, 2026-03-18 04:53:30

including Nemestrinid, Tabanid and Acrocerid flies. Living cycads have mutualistic relationships with specific insect species (typically beetles) which...

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Galápagos tortoise
Minggu, 2026-05-31 21:40:16

more on vision and smell as stimuli than hearing. Tortoises share a mutualistic relationship with some subspecies of Galápagos finch and mockingbirds...

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Biodiversity
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:41:54

Furthermore, in terrestrial ecosystems higher biodiversity can promote mutualistic interactions (like pollination or mycorrhizal networks), which can enhance...

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Arbuscular mycorrhiza
Rabu, 2026-04-29 03:20:14

endomycorrhizae than those that do. This symbiosis is a highly evolved mutualistic relationship found between fungi and plants, the most prevalent plant...

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Acropyga acutiventris
Senin, 2025-12-22 01:45:45

subfamily Formicinae. It lives underground in tropical regions and forms a mutualistic association with the mealybug, Xenococcus annandalei. This ant has the...

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Septobasidium
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 04:36:47

leperii (Signoret 1869)) and Septobasidium marianii Bres. which created a mutualistic symbiosis formed by the fungus and the scale insects on fruit trees in...

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Texas brown tarantula
Selasa, 2025-11-18 18:45:40

Alireza; West, Rick C.; Lamar, William W. (2024). "An extensive review of mutualistic and similar ecological associations involving tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae)...

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Inquiline
Kamis, 2026-03-05 02:20:30

Traps of carnivorous pitcher plants as a habitat: composition of the fluid, biodiversity and mutualistic activities. Annals Of Botany, 107(2), 181–194....

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Crematogaster peringueyi
Senin, 2025-02-24 14:35:16

Copper (Chrysoritis dicksoni) and other members of this genus, have a mutualistic relationship with various species of Crematogaster. The Lycaenidae and...

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Floc (biofilm)
Senin, 2025-10-20 08:20:30

to predation, manipulation of microenvironments, and facilitation of mutualistic relationships in mixed microbial communities. In general, the mechanisms...

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Termite
Rabu, 2026-05-20 06:43:12

Šobotník J, Engel MS, Bourguignon T (March 2021). "Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae". Cell Mol...

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Thomas Belt
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 18:44:13

gold bearing minerals, glacial geology, and for his description of the mutualistic relationship between certain bullthorn Acacia species and their Pseudomyrmex...

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Cascade effect (ecology)
Minggu, 2025-09-28 10:20:31

the threatened species are: dependent on a few specific food sources, mutualistic (dependent on the key species in some way), or forced to coexist with...

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Ecology
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:58:17

predator-prey dynamics, competition among similar plant species, or mutualistic interactions between crabs and corals. These ecosystems, as we may call...

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Bacteroides ureolyticus
Selasa, 2026-02-10 14:01:22

species. The DNA base composition is 40–48% GC. Bacteroides are normally mutualistic, a substantial portion of the mammalian gastrointestinal flora, and they...

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Pinna nobilis
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:39:38

similar filter-feeding diet to its host, and the relationship is likely mutualistic. Right and left valve of the same specimen: Right valve Left valve This...

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Butterfly
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:13:53

and form dense aggregations. Some species are myrmecophiles, forming mutualistic associations with ants and gaining their protection. Behavioural defences...

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Plant-growth promoting fungi
Minggu, 2026-04-05 06:06:13

plant roots, particularly in the rhizosphere, and have a positive or mutualistic effect on plant health and development. PGPF, like their bacterial counterparts...

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Portuguese man o' war
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:14:46

easy meal for the siphonophore, making the relationship potentially mutualistic. Cnidarians go through periods of large bursts in population growth called...

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Tomato
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:55:52

gelatinous outer coating and then dried before use. The tomato has a mutualistic relationship with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi such as Rhizophagus irregularis...

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Lilac-breasted roller
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:10:12

Albrecht T., Tryjanowski P. (2018) Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet...

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Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang
Senin, 2026-05-18 21:42:03

Gao, Qiang; Gilmartin, Philip M. (July 2021). "Molecular mechanisms of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions in a plant–pollinator association". Nature...

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Hamiltonella
Senin, 2025-07-28 09:44:03

parasitoid wasps. Hamiltonella has also been found as a nutritional mutualistic endosymbiont in Whiteflies. [1]"Oliver K.M., Campos J., Moran N.A., and...

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Summit rat
Minggu, 2025-10-05 20:10:46

northern Borneo at around 300-400 thousand years ago. The summit rat has a mutualistic relationship with a species of giant pitcher plant, Nepenthes rajah....

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Midichloria
Selasa, 2025-09-30 14:20:06

though the 100% prevalence in the females of the host tick suggests a mutualistic association. Although there is no evidence that even up to 20 bacteria...

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Túngara frog
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 17:19:16

fibrous mass in the frog's larynx. The túngara frog may also have a mutualistic relationship with tarantulas, where tarantulas participate in predator...

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Our Planet
Minggu, 2026-05-31 10:06:26

reef sharks work together to hunt within a coral reef. Corals have a mutualistic relationship with algae, which help provide them with food, but because...

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Utricularia
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 11:28:44

little as 15 to 30 minutes. The bladders of Utricularia often culture a mutualistic community of microbes, which may be a very important factor in digestion...

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Amblyeleotris
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:55:46

from as early as late early Miocene (Burdigalian) suggesting a possible mutualistic association since then. The species of Amblyeleotris vary considerably...

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Secondary metabolism
Kamis, 2025-10-09 19:50:36

antagonistic interactions, such as competition and predation, as well as mutualistic ones such as pollination and resource mutualisms. Examples of secondary...

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Hydnophytum ferrugineum
Jumat, 2025-02-07 03:26:04

native to the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. It forms a mutualistic relationship with ants on tree branches in the tropics. It is distinctive...

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Kampango
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 16:11:59

and Pseudotropheus crabro. At other times Pseudotropheus crabro has a mutualistic relationship with the kampango, as it will clean it by feeding on parasites...

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Neoparamoeba
Senin, 2025-05-05 05:22:11

in close contact with the nucleus and are considered obligatory and mutualistic. "The Amoebae". Retrieved June 25, 2009. Dyková, Iva; Fiala, Ivan; Lom...

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Flow cytometry
Rabu, 2026-02-25 21:59:34

cellular activity and diversity, to conduct investigations into the mutualistic relationships between microorganisms that live in close proximity, and...

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Photophore
Kamis, 2026-03-26 14:52:16

endogenously by the organism itself (non-symbiotic) or generated through a mutualistic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria (symbiotic), resulting in light...

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Pseudomyrmex spinicola
Senin, 2025-06-30 11:31:21

microhabitat to be used by the colony.[citation needed] Populations of mutualistic myrmecophyte-inhabiting ants may be space limited, and therefore P. spinicola...

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Bacteroides
Jumat, 2026-05-29 10:19:12

acid in their peptidoglycan layer. Bacteroides species are normally mutualistic, making up the most substantial portion of the mammalian gastrointestinal...

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Crematogaster scutellaris
Jumat, 2025-05-16 17:59:23

aphids inside the galls, so they are likely stored to overwinter due to a mutualistic relationship and/or serve as food storage. This species has a typically...

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Common dwarf mongoose
Minggu, 2026-04-26 03:10:27

black-backed jackals, side-striped jackals and slender mongooses. A mutualistic relationship has evolved between the dwarf mongoose and hornbills, in...

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Celastrina humulus
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:35:40

by behaviors like basking or sitting in shade. The hops azure has a mutualistic relationship with ants, called myrmecophiles. The MONA or Hodges number...

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Mediterranean climate
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:08:28

loss. The soils generally are of low fertility, and many plants have mutualistic relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[citation needed] Aquatic...

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Rhizosphere
Minggu, 2026-04-05 06:06:11

the soil microflora that exists in the rhizosphere. This informs other mutualistic relationships formed by plants around nitrogen uptake. Competition over...

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Exogenous bacteria
Selasa, 2025-11-11 16:31:49

bacteria can be introduced into a closed ecosystem as well, and have mutualistic benefits for both the microbe and the host. A prominent example of this...

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Vibrio
Selasa, 2026-05-26 00:16:22

shrimp (prawns). Aliivibrio fischeri (or V. fischeri) is known for its mutualistic symbiosis with the Hawaiian bobtail squid, which is dependent on microbial...

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Biological interaction
Senin, 2026-04-27 12:39:32

described as symbiosis; symbioses that are mutually beneficial are called mutualistic. The term symbiosis was subject to a century-long debate about whether...

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Xyleborinus saxesenii
Selasa, 2025-10-21 01:09:07

resource. Like other species of ambrosia beetles, X. saxesenii has a mutualistic relationship with ambrosia fungus species, in particular the Raffaela...

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Acmon blue
Minggu, 2026-04-05 18:11:54

disappear during autumn. Like many other lycaenid butterflies, it has a mutualistic relationship with ants, who protect Acmon blue larvae in exchange for...

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Pseudonocardia
Senin, 2025-09-29 22:01:49

family Pseudonocardiaceae. Members of this genus have been found living mutualistically on the cuticle of the leafcutter ants because the bacteria has antibiotic...

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Asarum canadense
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 21:32:56

can be reestablished even through low initial plantings. They have a mutualistic relationship with ants, as their seeds are primarily dispersed by the...

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Sympatry
Minggu, 2026-04-05 00:57:40

Leafcutter ants belonging to the genus Acromyrmex are known for their mutualistic relationship with Basidiomycete fungi. Ant colonies are closely associated...

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Dioon caputoi
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 00:44:06

500 individuals. The beetle Pharaxonotha bicolor is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Dioon caputoi, living and breeding in male cones and...

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Bihospites
Minggu, 2026-04-26 18:45:35

spherical-shaped epibiotic bacteria that may share a commensalistic or mutualistic relationship with Bihospites host cells. Bihospites cells are highly...

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Disease suppressive soils
Minggu, 2025-03-30 03:21:07

growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in the rhizosphere of plant roots. These mutualistic microbes function to increase plant health by fighting against harmful...

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Vachellia drepanolobium
Jumat, 2025-10-24 14:24:20

addition, whistling thorn acacias are myrmecophytes that have formed a mutualistic relationship with some species of acacia ants. In exchange for shelter...

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Parasites of phytoplankton
Senin, 2026-02-02 11:43:46

huxleyi is dynamic. The bacteria alternates between mutualistic and parasitic phases. In the mutualistic phase, both benefit mutually, with the algal host...

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Bacteriophage
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:00:26

PMID 25706310. Obeng N, Pratama AA, Elsas JD (June 2016). "The Significance of Mutualistic Phages for Bacterial Ecology and Evolution" (PDF). Trends in Microbiology...

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Kombucha
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:54:18

excretion of bacterial cellulose after about 2 days. The mixed, presumably mutualistic culture has been further described as being lichenous, in accord with...

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Giant wētā
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:20:33

regeneration through digestion and excretion of the plant matter. This mutualistic relationship between the goats, gorse and the Mahoenui giant wētā has...

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Extinction
Jumat, 2026-05-22 14:08:44

coextinction across the trophic levels. Such effects are most severe in mutualistic and parasitic relationships. An example of coextinction is the Haast's...

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Macropis europaea
Selasa, 2025-05-27 13:31:58

the family Melittidae. It is native to Europe. Macropis europaea has a mutualistic relationship with the yellow loosestrife plant. "Macropis europaea Warncke...

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Seed dispersal
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:57:20

mechanism for most tree species. Endozoochory is generally a coevolved mutualistic relationship in which a plant surrounds seeds with an edible, nutritious...

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Dioon califanoi
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 00:42:20

Huautla de Jiménez. The beetle Pharaxonotha bicolor is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Dioon califanoi, living and breeding in male cones...

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Calliactis parasitica
Kamis, 2025-05-15 00:01:58

colour. The relationship between C. parasitica and the hermit crab is mutualistic: the sea anemone protects the hermit crab with its stings, and benefits...

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Uterus
Selasa, 2026-04-28 19:48:22

that connects the uterus to other tissues of the pelvis. Commensal and mutualistic organisms are present in the uterus and form the uterine microbiome....

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Phoresis
Jumat, 2026-05-29 10:05:07

food). Phoresis is a commensal relationship, and deviations result in mutualistic or parasitic relationships. Phoretic relationships can become parasitic...

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Mimicry in plants
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:43:00

does not necessarily make their relationship to necrophagous insects mutualistic. Insects lay eggs on the carrion flowers, meaning they mistake the flowers...

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Plant secondary metabolism
Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:20:50

secondary metabolism are essential for communicating with other organisms in mutualistic (e.g. attraction of beneficial organisms such as pollinators) or antagonistic...

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Dinoroseobacter shibae
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:40:49

from washed cultivated dinoflagellates, they have been reported to have mutualistic as well as pathogenic symbioses with dinoflagellates. D. shibae cells...

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Steinernema carpocapsae
Jumat, 2025-10-03 08:00:05

the cuticle, and then enters into the hemocoel. S. carpocapsae are mutualistically associated with the bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila. When the IJ...

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Yucca
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:14:17

are found only in the Mojave Desert. Yuccas have a very specialized mutualistic system of pollination. Yucca moths in genus Tegeticula or Parategeticula...

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Cyrtophora
Jumat, 2026-03-20 23:14:18

kleptoparasitic spider (Argyrodes fissifrons) was found to live in a mutualistic relationships with Cyrtophora species. Some of the species are considered...

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Ecological facilitation
Minggu, 2026-01-25 20:35:46

examples of increased access to resources through facilitation are the mutualistic transfers of nutrients between symbiotic organisms. A symbiosis is a...

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Ecofeminism
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:43:03

to represent the universe at large. This metaphor values inclusive, mutualistic and interdependent relations amongst all things. Carolyn Merchant – Historian...

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Reductive evolution
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 04:18:15

to the progressive loss of non-essential genes. Both pathogenetic and mutualistic symbiotic bacteria have undergone genome reduction, but they retain different...

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Rattan
Senin, 2026-06-08 12:31:17

rautan (from raut, 'to trim' or 'to pare'). Many rattan species also form mutualistic relationships with ant species. They provide ant shelters (myrmecodomatia)...

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Brocchinia reducta
Minggu, 2025-05-25 04:41:53

pitcher plants as a habitat: composition of the fluid, biodiversity and mutualistic activities". Annals of Botany. 107 (2): 181–194. doi:10.1093/aob/mcq238...

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Devil's garden
Selasa, 2025-09-16 15:26:33

species found in devil's gardens are Duroia hirsuta (Rubiaceae). The mutualistic symbiosis between the ant Myrmelachista schumanni and the tree Duroia...

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Scotoplanes globosa
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 03:10:19

unsure whether the relationship between S. globosa and N. diomedea is mutualistic or commensal. Scotoplanes globosa is typically 2 to 15 cm in length and...

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Decorator crab
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 03:53:42

of crab and organisms such as sea anemones used as decoration may be mutualistic, offering protection to the crab and food to the anemone. Decorator crabs...

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Osedax
Kamis, 2026-03-26 05:45:13

literature over whether the symbiosis in Osedax roots is commensal or mutualistic. The symbiotic relationship between Osedax and its accompanying bacteria...

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Susan Henry
Senin, 2026-05-04 22:08:26

metabolic changes in an early divergent fungus govern the establishment of a mutualistic symbiosis with endobacteria. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy...

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Sustainable agriculture
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:01:15

with the presence of mycorrhizae in the soil. Mycorrhiza is a type of mutualistic symbiotic association between plants and fungi, which are well-equipped...

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Marchantia paleacea
Senin, 2026-04-20 14:03:07

Bidartondo, Martin I.; Leake, Jonathan R.; Beerling, David J. (2010-11-02). "Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants"....

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Parallel evolution
Selasa, 2026-05-05 00:41:06

it in return. Nectarivores and ornithophilous flowers often exist in mutualistic guild relationships facilitated by the bird's bill shape, food source...

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Aggressive mimicry
Rabu, 2026-05-06 15:41:30

be identified as a threat. Wicklerian-Eisnerian mimics may resemble a mutualistic ally, or a species of little significance to the prey such as a commensal...

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Steller's sea cow
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:45:29

aside from the Commander Islands. Steller's sea cows may have also had a mutualistic (or possibly even parasitic) relationship with local seabird species;...

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Animal communication
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:41:44

established hypotheses for the evolution of such apparently altruistic or mutualistic communications as alarm calls and courtship signals to emerge under individual...

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Gobiodon histrio
Minggu, 2025-10-19 22:12:39

causes the predator to lose equilibrium and tip over. It takes part in a mutualistic relationship with a species of coral, Acropora nasuta. When the coral...

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Cockroach
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:11:20

about their relationships. All species studied so far carry the obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacterium Blattabacterium, with the exception of Nocticola...

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Innate immune system
Senin, 2026-05-11 05:09:22

and by phagocytes, as in Salmonella. Bacteroides species are normally mutualistic bacteria, making up a substantial portion of the mammalian gastrointestinal...

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Cuckoo
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:47:31

noted that the interactions were not necessarily simply parasitic or mutualistic. This relationship was not observed for any other host species, or for...

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Müllerian mimicry
Kamis, 2026-04-16 10:07:21

"Müllerian" mimicry may be "quasi-Batesian", or parasitic, rather than mutualistic. In "quasi-Batesian" mimicry, a weakly unpalatable species is proposed...

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Propionibacterium freudenreichii
Rabu, 2025-12-24 22:44:48

been suggested to possibly lower the incidence of colon cancer. This mutualistic relationship is unusual in propionibacteria, which are largely commensal...

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Catopsis berteroniana
Jumat, 2026-04-03 10:17:03

pitcher plants as a habitat: Composition of the fluid, biodiversity and mutualistic activities. Annals of Botany, (107), 181-194. Jabiol, J., Corbara, B...

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Stichodactyla gigantea
Rabu, 2025-06-25 08:57:08

aquarium. Like all sea anemones in captivity that have a symbiotic, mutualistic relationship with anemonefish, S. gigantea requires intense aquarium...

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Mycorrhizal bioremediation
Minggu, 2025-09-07 19:32:00

heavy metals or pollutants is a process by which mycorrhizal fungi in a mutualistic relationship with plants can sequester toxic compounds from the environment...

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Noctuidae
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:40:34

plants. For example, the lychnis moth (Hadena bicruris) has a strange mutualistic relationship with pink plants or carnation plants (Caryophyllaceae),...

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Infection
Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:45:00

extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationship with the host. An example of the former is...

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Long-tailed fiscal
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 06:41:20

but only rarely from the air. The species has been reported to have a mutualistic relationship with red-billed buffalo weavers in Tsavo in Kenya. The long-tailed...

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Nepenthes hemsleyana
Senin, 2026-02-09 15:38:04

the upper pitchers of N. hemsleyana. This relationship appears to be mutualistic, with the plant providing shelter for the bats and in return receiving...

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Mountain treeshrew
Senin, 2025-10-13 15:23:59

season. Litters comprised one to two young. Mountain treeshrews have a mutualistic relationship with several pitcher plants species such as Nepenthes lowii...

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Lamellibrachia
Rabu, 2025-01-29 07:01:36

A.; Shea, K.; Arvidson, R. S.; Fisher, C. R. (2005). "Modeling the Mutualistic Interactions between Tubeworms and Microbial Consortia". PLOS Biology...

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Sword-billed hummingbird
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:30:01

source to nearly every species except the sword-billed hummingbird. This mutualistic relationship lets P. mixta depend on the bird for pollination, while...

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List of The Magic School Bus episodes
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:39:36

teams up with Carlos, and Arnold teams up with Phoebe. They learn about mutualistic, symbiotic relationships in coral reefs. They are forced to work together...

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Resource curse
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:52:39

when environmental resources are low, they tend to be cooperative and mutualistic. Ecological studies have hypothesised that competitive forces between...

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Crematogaster dohrni
Rabu, 2025-05-28 15:57:20

scale insects to more favorable sites. This ant is also known to live in mutualistic association with myrmecophytes. While the ant protects these plants from...

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Microcycas
Selasa, 2026-03-17 09:57:24

in reserves. The beetles Pharaxonotha esperanzae is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Microcycas calocoma, living and breeding in male cones...

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Microorganism
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:42:36

chemical signals between both the plant and fungi. This results in a mutualistic symbiosis between the two. However, these signals can be eavesdropped...

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Senegalia greggii
Jumat, 2026-05-15 09:23:14

has been made between these glands and insects that would suggest a mutualistic relationship (as found in other Senegalia species). Ants are known to...

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Gastrophryne olivacea
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:07:34

carolinensis. Their primary diet is ants. Western narrow-mouthed toads have a mutualistic relationship with tarantulas. They will live together, and in exchange...

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Mimicry
Senin, 2026-04-13 15:52:20

Müllerian mimicry, named in his honour, has since been used for this mutualistic form of mimicry. Müller wrote that The resemblance of the genera named...

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Jellyfish
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:22:08

phytoplankton (microscopic plants) such as dinoflagellates. Others harbour mutualistic algae (Zooxanthellae) in their tissues; the spotted jellyfish (Mastigias...

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Mathematical oncology
Rabu, 2026-04-01 03:48:21

that clones can collectively acquire the hallmarks of cancer through mutualistic relationships. Ecological frameworks treat tumors as ecosystems in which...

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Fusicolla merismoides
Rabu, 2026-05-20 17:59:01

bacterium Escherichia coli. Seeing such an evolving community with its mutualistic interactions has inspired some to speculate that "... life emerges and...

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Cardinal beetle
Jumat, 2026-01-16 03:42:44

This is in contrast to many species of Ambrosia beetles that live mutualistically in wooded areas with a fungal source. Larvae mature over the span of...

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Lamellibrachia luymesi
Senin, 2025-08-11 04:22:27

M. A., Shea K., Arvidson R. S. & Fisher C. R. (2005). "Modeling the Mutualistic Interactions between Tubeworms and Microbial Consortia". PLoS Biology...

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Lycaena heteronea
Jumat, 2025-01-24 03:04:42

where species of Eriogonum are found. Blue copper larvae sometimes form mutualistic associations with Formica francoeuri, an ant species. The blue copper...

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Vachellia seyal
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 02:21:58

heavy clay soils, some of the thorns are swollen as domatia, housing mutualistic ants such as Crematogaster. In Africa, it is native to many countries...

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Gull egg
Minggu, 2025-12-14 14:27:59

relationship between egging human and nesting gulls may be considered to be mutualistic, in that humans nourish the gull population with a steady supply of fish...

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Amphiprion chrysogaster
Kamis, 2026-05-21 16:47:42

Fautin DG; Allen GR (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proc R Soc B Biol Sci....

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Fungal-bacterial endosymbiosis
Rabu, 2025-09-24 16:47:07

Fungal-bacterial endosymbiosis encompasses the mutualistic relationship between a fungus and intracellular bacteria species residing within the fungus...

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Funneliformis mosseae
Senin, 2026-06-08 13:04:43

symbiotic relationships with most terrestrial plants. The relationship is mutualistic, meaning that both the plant and fungi have benefits in forming these...

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Truffle
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:23:46

species, including beech, birch, hazel, hornbeam, oak, pine, and poplar. Mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungi such as truffles provide valuable nutrients to...

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Treeshrew
Minggu, 2026-05-17 21:40:33

diet with tree shrew droppings, which provide essential nitrogen in a mutualistic relationship. The plants facilitate this behavior by producing excess...

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Microbial ecology
Senin, 2026-05-18 13:29:32

(example humans) that allows for both sides to benefit. Microorganisms form mutualistic relationships with other microorganism, plants or animals. One example...

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Agaricomycetes
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:42:08

species are pathogenic or parasitic, and yet others are symbiotic (i.e., mutualistic), these including the important ectomycorrhizal symbionts of forest trees...

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Poecilotheria ornata
Kamis, 2025-12-18 10:19:41

is limited.[citation needed] The spider is noted to have a possibly mutualistic relationship with frogs such as Ramanella nagaoi, sharing tree holes...

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Parachartergus apicalis
Sabtu, 2025-05-24 02:18:41

treehopper, plant sap-feeding insects, during the daytime, an example of a mutualistic relationship. The wasp protects the treehopper nymphs from predators...

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Cryptodendrum
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:11:51

Fautin DG; Allen GR (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proc R Soc B Biol Sci....

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Panama disease
Jumat, 2026-03-20 21:34:44

PMID 30812575. M J Carlile, S C Watkinson, G W Gooday, 2001, Parasites and Mutualistic Symbionts in 'The Fungi (Second Edition)' Eds: same as authors, Academic...

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Paramecium
Rabu, 2025-12-03 14:32:21

its waste contents outside the cell. Some species of Paramecium form mutualistic relationships with other organisms. Paramecium bursaria and Paramecium...

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Montipora verrucosa
Kamis, 2026-05-28 23:51:36

their environment become favorable. Montipora verrucosa have an obligate mutualistic relationship with an endosymbiont algae. The algae fix carbon inside...

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Gigaspora margarita
Rabu, 2026-04-01 18:31:22

Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) which means it is an obligate symbiont that creates mutualistic relationships with many different plant species. Being an AMF, G. margarita...

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Lithophaga simplex
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:42:25

structural weakening, so the relationship between the two is probably mutualistic. Other host corals for this bivalve include Goniastrea pectinata, and...

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Hydnellum peckii
Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:35:15

Hydnellum peckii is a mycorrhizal fungus, and as such establishes a mutualistic relationship with the roots of certain trees (referred to as "hosts")...

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Marine life
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:29:37

basidiomycetes). Most mycoplankton species are higher fungi. Lichens are mutualistic associations between a fungus, usually an ascomycete, and an alga or...

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The Head (1994 TV series)
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 06:17:50

explains that there are two races of symbiotic aliens: his own, which is mutualistic; and Gork's, which is parasitic. Aiding Jim and Roy are Jim's girlfriend...

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Climate of Ghana
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:48:57

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis". PLOS ONE. 12 (9) e0184311....

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Monito del monte
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:15:15

study performed in the temperate forests of southern Argentina showed a mutualistic seed dispersal relationship between D. gliroides and Tristerix corymbosus...

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Millipede
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:11:15

Polyxenus fasciculatus, detach and entangle ants. Some millipedes form mutualistic relationships with organisms of other species, in which both species...

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Mansonella ozzardi
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 15:57:36

doxycycline appears to cure the infection by targeting the obligate mutualistic endosymbiotic bacteria of the Wolbachia genus that are essential for...

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Amphiprion leucokranos
Selasa, 2025-09-30 10:28:48

Fautin DG; Allen GR (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proc R Soc B Biol Sci....

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Pagurus dalli
Jumat, 2024-01-12 12:32:32

Ocean at depths down to about 276 m (900 ft). It usually lives in a mutualistic symbiosis with a sponge, or sometimes a hydroid. Pagurus dalli has a...

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Dioon tomasellii
Minggu, 2026-01-04 00:07:15

Dioon sonorense. The beetle Pharaxonotha novoia is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Dioon tomaselli, living and breeding in male cones...

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Parasites in fiction
Senin, 2026-03-16 01:39:30

beings, are seen in science fiction as distasteful, in contrast to (mutualistic) symbiosis, and sometimes horrible. Practical uses can be made of them...

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Mosaic coevolution
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:42:00

on the ecological conditions, the interspecific interactions may be mutualistic or antagonistic. In mutualisms, both partners benefit from the interaction...

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Hermetia illucens
Minggu, 2026-03-15 23:01:46

also converted to carbon dioxide respired by the grubs and symbiotic/mutualistic microorganisms. The use of BSFL in a compost system typically reduces...

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Bohadschia argus
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:28:59

cavity of a single Bohadschia argus. Carapus mourlani, which have a mutualistic relationship with Bohadschia argus, will aggressively defend their sea...

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Theodor Hartig
Senin, 2026-03-09 02:09:02

epidermal cells. The Hartig net is part of the structure of ectomycorrizae, mutualistic symbioses between fungi and plant roots. He died in Braunschweig. 1836...

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Red harvester ant
Senin, 2026-01-12 07:13:32

secure food supply in future harvests. This is typically understood as a mutualistic interaction. Dead insects are also collected during foraging. Much research...

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Greenland shark
Senin, 2026-06-01 12:26:04

may display bioluminescence, thus attracting prey for the shark in a mutualistic relationship, but this hypothesis has not been verified. These parasites...

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Jordi Bascompte
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 21:08:42

Together with Pedro Jordano and Jens Olesen, Bascompte showed that mutualistic networks display repeated structural patterns. This finding helped dismissing...

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Pavona duerdeni
Minggu, 2025-09-14 18:37:35

family Agariciidae, Pavona duerdeni is a reef-building stony coral, with mutualistic symbiotic zooxanthellae, helping achieve nutritional requirements in...

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Home birth
Senin, 2026-04-27 09:25:13

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis". PLOS ONE. 12 (9) e0184311....

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Stichodactyla helianthus
Rabu, 2026-05-06 14:26:39

Like many other sea anemones, S. helianthus can serve as a “hub” for mutualistic networks of species and has been documented to live in symbiosis with...

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Root microbiome
Senin, 2026-02-23 02:54:35

necrotrophic (subsisting off of dead tissue). While some microbes may be purely mutualistic or parasitic, many may behave differently depending on the host species...

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Insect morphology
Senin, 2026-05-25 12:44:50

hypothesis of relationships. All species studied so far carry the obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacterium Blattabacterium, with the exception of Nocticola...

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Esophagus
Kamis, 2026-03-19 03:54:21

Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-61714-7. Mackie, R. I. (1 April 2002). "Mutualistic Fermentative Digestion in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Diversity and Evolution"...

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Gut–brain axis
Rabu, 2026-05-27 20:56:51

humans is not merely commensal (a non-harmful coexistence), but rather a mutualistic relationship. Human gut microorganisms benefit the host by collecting...

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Autotroph
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:27:59

tundra climates are an exceptional example of a primary producer that, by mutualistic symbiosis, combines photosynthesis by algae (or additionally nitrogen...

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No Game No Life
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:22:57

sleep using the Ten Covenants centuries ago and as a result, the once mutualistic relationship between Dhampirs and Sirens has caused all but one male...

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Thinstripe hermit crab
Rabu, 2026-05-20 01:28:12

the shell that is occupied by Clibanarius vittatus. This seems to be a mutualistic arrangement in which the crab benefits from the fact that potential predators...

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Zamia portoricensis
Rabu, 2026-03-18 09:10:42

species complex. The beetle Pharaxonotha portophylla is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Zamia portiricensis, living and breeding in male cones...

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Lützerath
Kamis, 2026-03-19 05:44:41

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis". PLOS ONE. 12 (9) e0184311....

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Microbiome
Rabu, 2026-02-11 15:12:05

accordingly described as antagonistic (based on negative interactions) or mutualistic (based on positive interactions). As of 2020, the emergence in publications...

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Lophocereus schottii
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:42:24

ISBN 3-8001-4573-1. Holland, J. Nathaniel; Fleming, Theodore H. (1999-09-01). "Mutualistic Interactions Between Upiga Virescens (pyralidae), a Pollinating Seed-Consumer...

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List of generation II Pokémon
Minggu, 2026-06-07 18:41:00

—N/a Octillery (#224) Remoraid is based on a remora fish, and has a mutualistic relationship with the manta ray Pokémon Mantine, with Remoraid clinging...

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American carrion beetle
Selasa, 2026-04-21 19:10:02

beneficial habitat feature for this species. The beetle is known to engage in mutualistic phoresis with mites of the genus Poecilochirus. Upon arrival at a carcass...

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Host sanction theory
Sabtu, 2025-03-01 20:30:45

theory aims to understand how cooperation evolves and is maintained in a mutualistic relationship between organisms. The host sanction model theorizes that...

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Gut microbiota
Selasa, 2026-05-05 10:41:59

humans is not merely commensal (a non-harmful coexistence), but rather a mutualistic relationship. Some human gut microorganisms benefit the host by fermenting...

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Zamia pseudomonticola
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 04:22:29

by habitat loss. The beetle Pharaxonotha confusa is in an obligatory mutualistic relationship with Zamia pseudomonticola, living and breeding in male...

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Minuca pugnax
Rabu, 2025-10-01 21:52:58

along the Long Island Sound and in Rhode Island. Minuca pugnax has a mutualistic relationship with Spartina alterniflora, a perennial deciduous grass...

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Aggregating anemone
Minggu, 2024-06-02 11:16:54

tolerant of a broad range of temperature and irradiance levels. The mutualistic relationship of these organisms requires adaptations of each partner...

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Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:56:25

pick up trace nutrients in their claws, that are then ingested favor a mutualistic relationship with populations of fur moths. More recently, a new hypothesis...

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Durusdinium trenchii
Kamis, 2025-10-30 04:11:08

Durusdinium trenchii is a stress-tolerant species, a generalist able to form mutualistic relationships with many species of coral. It is present in many reefs...

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Anisogamy
Minggu, 2026-04-19 15:37:50

offering mobility but lacking nutritional contribution. Eventually, this mutualistic relationship stabilized into a distinct dimorphism: large, immobile eggs...

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Thermomyces lanuginosus
Jumat, 2026-04-03 07:38:57

biomass. T. lanuginosus is a secondary sugar fungus and can participate in mutualistic relationships with some true cellulose decomposers of composts. Thermomyces...

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Symbiotic bacteria
Senin, 2026-05-04 21:56:07

waters which are typically poor in nitrogen. Corals must therefore form a mutualistic relationship with nitrogen fixing organism, in this case the subject...

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Harpophora
Sabtu, 2025-09-06 05:57:59

endophyte Harpophora oryzae genome reveals evolution from a pathogen to a mutualistic endophyte". Scientific Reports. 4 (1): 5783. doi:10.1038/srep05783. ISSN 2045-2322...

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Exaiptasia diaphana
Minggu, 2025-12-28 12:56:43

semitranslucent brown, gray, or white. The brown color is caused by the mutualistic photosynthetic zooxanthellae, Symbiodinium microadriaticum, found in...

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Radianthus malu
Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:38:17

Fautin DG; Allen GR. (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Recreational drug use in animals
Senin, 2026-01-12 22:23:03

suggested that this preference may be part of the reward system driving the mutualistic feeding behavior. About 70% of domestic cats are attracted to, and affected...

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Critical transition
Jumat, 2025-10-17 21:20:20

Bascompte, Jordi; Scheffer, Marten (2020). "Foreseeing the future of mutualistic communities beyond collapse". Ecology Letters. 23 (1): 2–15. Bibcode:2020EcolL...

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Elizabethkingia anophelis
Minggu, 2026-06-07 16:06:48

particularly those with compromised immune systems. The bacterium has a mutualistic relationship with the mosquito, where it helps digest blood meals and...

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DNA microarray
Jumat, 2026-01-30 02:09:49

Pinus sylvestris after challenge with a saprotrophic, pathogenic or mutualistic fungus". Tree Physiol. 28 (6): 885–897. doi:10.1093/treephys/28.6.885...

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Nubian ibex
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:47:32

gazella), and Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus). Nubian ibex have a mutualistic relationship with Tristram's starling (Onycognathus tristrumil), a small...

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Human milk microbiome
Jumat, 2026-01-16 17:40:40

microbiota in human milk serves as a potential source of commensal, mutualistic, and potentially probiotic bacteria for the infant gut microbiota. The...

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Movile Cave
Minggu, 2026-05-31 23:09:58

nutrient absorption. Resident microorganisms of Movile Cave have both mutualistic and competitive interactions that balance the ecosystem equilibrium....

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Regime shift
Selasa, 2026-03-03 07:23:04

Ecol Lett 13, 154–161 Bastolla, U., et al. (2009) The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature 458...

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Hardwicke's woolly bat
Jumat, 2025-10-03 04:35:36

swamps and heath forests of Borneo. This relationship appears to be mutualistic, with the plant providing shelter for the bats and in return receiving...

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Corvus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:55:39

This symbiotic relationship between ravens and wolves is shown to be mutualistic; ravens help wolves find prey and when the wolves kill them the ravens...

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Suberites domuncula
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:23:47

form gemmules on the outside of the shell. Sponges are known to hold mutualistic bacteria in their mesohyl. S. domuncula produce a bacterial quorum sensing...

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Xylocopa caffra
Selasa, 2026-03-31 17:19:03

the larvae are fed a mixture of pollen and nectar. The females have a mutualistic association with phoretic mites that are transported from nest to nest...

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Jain vegetarianism
Minggu, 2026-05-17 07:17:47

fruits, but enclosed inflorescences (syconia) that rely on an obligate mutualistic symbiosis with pollinating fig wasps. To pollinate the internal flowers...

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Impala
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:40:39

Albrecht T, Tryjanowski P. (2018) Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet...

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Food web
Senin, 2026-04-27 23:06:02

length compared to a regular lattice. "Ecological networks, especially mutualistic networks, are generally very heterogeneous, consisting of areas with...

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Sexual conflict
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:10:32

as a subset of sexual selection (which was traditionally regarded as mutualistic[citation needed]), while others suggest it is a separate evolutionary...

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Glossary of ant terms
Kamis, 2025-10-16 21:38:20

association of various organisms with ants myrmecophyte plant that lives in a mutualistic association with ants nanitic a worker of the first generation, usually...

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Lactarius rufulus
Kamis, 2025-05-15 16:18:22

yellowing latex. Lactarius rufulus is a mycorrhizal species, and lives in a mutualistic association with oak species. The fungus forms an ectomycorrhizae—characterized...

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Housefly
Jumat, 2026-03-13 21:54:49

sucked up. They can be opportunistic blood feeders. Houseflies have a mutualistic relationship with the bacterium Klebsiella oxytoca, which can live on...

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Plant root exudates
Selasa, 2025-11-04 04:39:06

plant growth and increase water use efficiency. Plants establish these mutualistic relationships with bacteria and fungi by modulating the composition of...

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Niche construction
Kamis, 2025-11-27 13:25:16

Goddard, Matthew R (2014). "Niche construction initiates the evolution of mutualistic interactions". Ecology Letters. 17 (10): 1257–64. Bibcode:2014EcolL....

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Coral disease
Minggu, 2025-09-28 06:30:34

occur with stress is the coral expelling its zooxanthellae, which are mutualistic algae that live inside coral. Corals without their symbionts become bleached...

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Trichodesmium
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:55:03

and the epibiont bacteria within the holobiont colonies may perform mutualistic interactions where limiting nutrients such as iron can be mobilized from...

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Mycorrhizal network
Jumat, 2026-03-27 23:31:48

individual plants together. Mycorrhizal relationships are most commonly mutualistic, with both partners benefiting, but can be commensal or parasitic, and...

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Intracellular parasite
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 15:29:23

may also have originally been such parasites, but ended up forming a mutualistic relationship (endosymbiotic theory). Study of obligate pathogens is difficult...

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Eulaema meriana
Jumat, 2026-04-24 23:38:06

female visit flowers to feed on nectar. Besides this, the male has a mutualistic relationship with one or more species of orchid. To persuade the male...

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Glossary of mycology
Senin, 2026-04-27 21:31:32

(mycobiont) and algae or cyanobacteria (photobiont). The two coexist in a mutualistic relationship as partners; the resulting lifeform differs markedly from...

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Cecropia
Minggu, 2026-06-07 07:34:33

” (Berg, Rosselli and Davidson, 2005: page 214) Myrmecophytism is a mutualistic relationship formed with ant colonies, where the ants protect the tree...

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Heterotroph
Kamis, 2025-12-25 07:43:21

of heterotrophs. Today, many heterotrophs and autotrophs also utilize mutualistic relationships that provide needed resources to both organisms. One example...

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Dinoflagellate
Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:06:12

such as Symbiodinium, play an important ecological role by forming mutualistic relationships with corals, where their pigments drive photosynthesis...

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Serratia
Rabu, 2026-02-04 00:54:43

flies. Most of them reside in insects as bacterial flora and some form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with their hosts. For example, in aphids, strains...

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Andragogy
Minggu, 2026-02-22 00:33:12

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis". PLOS ONE. 12 (9) e0184311....

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Domestication of vertebrates
Minggu, 2026-05-03 15:49:21

Domestication has been defined as "a sustained multi-generational, mutualistic relationship in which one organism assumes a significant degree of influence...

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Chlorodesmis
Minggu, 2026-04-19 19:08:52

Ecosystems Dixson, D. L.; Hay, M. E. (2012). "Corals Chemically Cue Mutualistic Fishes to Remove Competing Seaweeds". Science. 338 (6108): 804–807. doi:10...

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Protocarnivorous plant
Kamis, 2025-10-30 05:15:58

botanists widened the original definition to include species that use mutualistic interactions for digestion. Both the strict and broad definitions require...

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Fossil history of flowering plants
Kamis, 2026-04-30 12:01:50

wasp example is not incidental; bees, which evolved specifically due to mutualistic plant relationships, are descended from wasps. The paleontologist Robert...

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Aneura mirabilis
Selasa, 2026-05-19 10:33:35

the ancestor of Aneura mirabilis, like the related A. pinguis, had a mutualistic mycorrhizal association with Tulasnella, which was also able to form...

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Sloth
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:25:45

trace nutrients in their claws, that are then ingested, and To favor a mutualistic relationship with populations of fur moths. More recently, a new hypothesis...

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Marine fungi
Jumat, 2026-04-24 01:12:51

obtaining nutrients, including parasitism, saprobism, and the development of mutualistic relationships such as mycorrhiza and lichenization. Recent (2009) studies...

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William Batchelder Greene
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:18:52

Princeton, Mass.: Co-operative Pub. Co. (1873). Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments (1875). International Address: An elaborate...

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Bubble-tip anemone
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:43:19

& Allen, Gerald R. (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Mutualism (economic theory)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 17:40:04

Batchelder (1875). "Communism vs. Mutualism". Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments. Boston: Lee & Shepard. OCLC 2567184. Kuehn,...

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'A' of Charlemagne
Minggu, 2025-09-21 22:16:17

influence single-handedly accomplished this, and he was rewarded with a mutualistic relationship between himself and the church. The church honors this attachment...

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Buzz pollination
Kamis, 2025-11-06 22:58:07

branching out and selling not only bumblebees but other insects who may have mutualistic relationships with plants. The total profit of this industry has been...

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Broomistega
Rabu, 2025-10-29 00:39:51

(for example, a predator storing the body of its prey in the burrow) or mutualistic relationships whereby the original occupant gains protection from predators...

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Marcgravia evenia
Senin, 2025-06-02 12:33:17

Lin; Kerth, Gerald (July 2015). "Bats Are Acoustically Attracted to Mutualistic Carnivorous Plants". Current Biology. 25 (14): 1911–1916. doi:10.1016/j...

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Victoria amazonica
Rabu, 2025-12-10 15:13:28

produce flowers for a full growing season, and they have co-evolved a mutualistic relationship with a species of scarab beetle of the genus Cyclocephala...

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Bathyphysa conifera
Senin, 2026-02-09 12:37:00

A species of manefish in the genus Caristius associates apparently mutualistically with B. conifera, using it for shelter, stealing meals, and perhaps...

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Codonanthopsis
Kamis, 2024-08-08 05:37:51

species are generally trailing epiphytes with pale flowers. Most have a mutualistic relationship with tree-living ants: the plants provide the ants with...

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X-O Manowar
Jumat, 2026-04-17 02:05:15

people. The armor is living, composed of organics and exotic metals—a mutualistic symbiote, bonded to its host. For centuries, the Vine high priests searched...

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Yellow-billed oxpecker
Jumat, 2025-10-03 01:58:07

Tryjanowski, Piotr (2018). "Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet...

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Sebae anemone
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:41:22

Fautin DG & Allen GR (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Red slender loris
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:46:46

density at 1077 trees/ha. Humboldtia laurifolia is vulnerable and has a mutualistic relationship with ants, providing abundant food for lorises. Reports...

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Self-decoration camouflage
Minggu, 2025-07-13 10:31:05

The relationship with some of these animals, such as sea anemones is mutualistic; in the case of aposematic animals like stinging sea anemones, the crabs...

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Honey
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:34:16

ranking honey as their favorite food. Honey hunters in Africa have a mutualistic relationship with certain species of honeyguide birds. Possibly the world's...

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Mysida
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:01:42

diurnal cycle of vertical migrations. The species Mysidium integrum has a mutualistic relationship with longfin damselfish, the shrimp providing nutrients...

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Anarchism in the United States
Senin, 2026-03-16 18:21:42

president of the Massachusetts Labor Union". He then published Socialistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments (1875). He saw mutualism as the synthesis of...

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Paleomycology
Jumat, 2026-04-10 21:43:47

animal matter. Mycorrhizal relationships between plant and fungi are mutualistic: the fungus gains a carbon source, while the plant receives nutrient...

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Marsh fritillary
Minggu, 2026-04-26 12:07:35

phenotypes such as cytoplasmic incompatibility, sex ratio distortion, mutualistic or neutral relationship, there seemed to be no conclusive phenotype of...

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Gedeo Cultural Landscape
Rabu, 2025-09-10 18:25:52

stems from the customs and beliefs of the Gedeo people, leading to a mutualistic human-environmental relationship. The area contains several sacred forests...

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Emergency Skin
Rabu, 2026-04-29 18:16:11

be employed. in order to move away from parasitic dynamics to a more mutualistic relationship, humans have to start with taking care of one another and...

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Mycoleptodiscus
Selasa, 2024-05-14 09:03:09

meaning that they do not harm the host plant and are probably in a mutualistic relationship with it. Mycoleptodiscus affinis Mycoleptodiscus atromaculans...

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Evolutionary anachronism
Senin, 2026-04-13 09:44:11

those eaten by tortoises, which have no gizzard; this might imply to a mutualistic relation with a bird after all, and the dodo was the only bird large...

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Hemiberlesia lataniae
Senin, 2025-05-12 11:14:50

three weeks before moulting to the adult stage. The organism may have a mutualistic relationship with a fungus, Septobasidium, which can protect them from...

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Boletus edulis
Minggu, 2026-06-07 20:02:26

equivalent plots facing south. Boletus edulis is mycorrhizal—it is in a mutualistic relationship with the roots of plants (hosts), in which the fungus exchanges...

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Saffron toucanet
Rabu, 2026-05-20 22:31:16

"Frugivores at Higher Risk of Extinction Are the Key Elements of a Mutualistic Network." Ecology 95.12 (2014): 3440-447. Web. 28 Feb. 2017. Bonaparte...

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Glomeromycota
Kamis, 2026-05-21 06:51:32

structure facilitates the two-way movement of nutrients between the host and mutualistic fungal partner. The symbiotic association allows the host plant to respond...

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Glomus (fungus)
Minggu, 2026-05-31 19:00:27

drought resistance, and disease resistance. However, the symbiosis is not mutualistic in all circumstances and may often be parasitic, with a detrimental effect...

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Quorum sensing
Senin, 2026-05-11 13:41:57

fischeri is the first organism in which QS was observed. It lives as a mutualistic symbiont in the photophore (or light-producing organ) of the Hawaiian...

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Breviatea
Kamis, 2026-03-12 06:00:37

Kleiner, Manuel; et al. (2016-06-09). "Environmental Breviatea harbor mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts". Nature. 534 (7606): 254–258. Bibcode:2016Natur...

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Zamia integrifolia
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:08:32

(Cryptolaemus montrouzieri), are commonly found on Z. integrifolia. They form a mutualistic relationship by providing the plant protection from pests in exchange...

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Euglossa dilemma
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:18:10

specialised to visit particular species of neotropical orchid. This is a mutualistic arrangement in which the male bee benefits from gathering the fragrance...

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Cecropia pachystachya
Senin, 2025-12-08 07:50:38

male and female flowers occurring on separate trees. The tree has a mutualistic relationship with ants from the genus Azteca which protect the tree from...

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Pedro Jordano
Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:37:08

Spain where he focused on ecological and evolutionary consequences of mutualistic interactions between animals and plants. His professional career started...

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Staghorn coral
Selasa, 2026-02-03 22:20:12

PMID 16928632. Muscatine, L.; W. Porter, James (1977). "Reef Corals: Mutualistic Symbioses Adapted to Nutrient-Poor Environments Get access Arrow". BioScience...

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Jean Decety
Senin, 2026-04-13 13:02:15

ISSN 2397-3374. Baumard, Nicolas; André, Jean-Baptiste; Sperber, Dan (2013). "A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice". Behavioral...

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2026 in paleoentomology
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:01:13

as Meganeuropsis permiana. Negri & Toledo (2026) review evidence of mutualistic relationships between insects and gymnosperms before the emergence of...

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Strigolactone
Minggu, 2026-04-19 00:23:14

fungi, especially arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, because they establish a mutualistic association with these plants, and provide phosphate and other soil nutrients...

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Pathogen transmission
Minggu, 2026-05-10 04:28:04

transmitted in this way include: HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis. Many mutualistic organisms are transmitted vertically. Transmission due to medical procedures...

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Ant follower
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 14:58:10

ant followers and the army ants, particularly Eciton burchellii, was mutualistic, with the ants benefiting by having the birds chase prey back down towards...

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Ensifer medicae
Selasa, 2023-08-15 06:57:56

based on 16s rRNA gene sequences. This bacterium is often involved in mutualistic relationships with legumes. It performs atmospheric nitrogen fixation...

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Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale
Selasa, 2025-11-11 06:44:09

employed, it may be the first indication of their presence. Ants have a mutualistic relationship with aphids and are attracted to the honeydew they produce;...

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Vachellia cornigera
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:02:02

attraction of defending ants. As long as the plants are inhabited by mutualistic ants, the extrafloral nectar will get secreted with a sharp diurnal peak...

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Strigomonas culicis
Jumat, 2025-10-03 01:54:28

mosquito, and is in turn a host to symbiotic bacteria. It maintains strict mutualistic relationship with the bacteria as a sort of cell organelle (endosymbiont)...

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Radopholus similis
Minggu, 2025-05-25 22:39:11

(biological) controls for nematodes like R. similis. There is evidence that mutualistic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi may reduce the susceptibility of...

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Fictive kinship
Selasa, 2026-04-07 17:15:58

created knowingly to both parties in order to achieve their goals, and is mutualistic in nature. Adoption and foster care have always been grouped into the...

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Bioerosion
Rabu, 2026-05-06 18:58:23

importance in mitigating damage done by coral bleaching events as a mutualistic symbiont, previous research looked more into its activity as a parasitic...

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Florivore
Sabtu, 2025-07-26 01:32:58

C.; Florens, F.B.V. (2019). "Non-intrusive systematic study reveals mutualistic interactions between threatened island endemic species and points to...

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Heterocyathus
Rabu, 2025-10-08 17:53:28

heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis Stolarski, J., Zibrowius, H....

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Ficus citrifolia
Rabu, 2025-12-24 15:43:00

selective pressure to flower and produce fruit year round due to its mutualistic relationship with its pollinating agaonid wasp. Agaonid wasps have a...

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Necrophage
Minggu, 2026-04-12 13:31:00

such as protective gut linings, antibacterial lectins and lysozymes, mutualistic relationships with microbiota bacteria, and behavioral traits such as...

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Mastotermes
Kamis, 2025-10-02 05:18:26

Šobotník J, Engel MS, Bourguignon T (March 2021). "Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae". Cell Mol...

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Timeline of plant evolution
Jumat, 2025-12-12 12:39:51

Bidartondo, Martin I.; Leake, Jonathan R.; Beerling, David J. (2010-11-02). "Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants"....

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Cyrtophorus verrucosus
Rabu, 2026-03-04 01:24:54

lifetime, they may also develop specific traits that aid and enhance their mutualistic relationship with floral hosts. From morphological changes like making...

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Chilika Lake
Jumat, 2026-05-29 12:46:27

increasing unmanaged tourism activities. The Irrawaddy dolphins have a mutualistic relationship of co-operative fishing with the traditional fishermen....

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Southern nutcracker
Senin, 2025-10-06 08:05:56

L.; Nilsson, M.A. (2022). "Speciation and population divergence in a mutualistic seed dispersing bird". Communications Biology. 5 (1): 429. doi:10...

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Irrawaddy dolphin
Rabu, 2026-04-15 18:52:41

14. It has been extinct in Laos since 2022. Irrawaddy dolphins have a mutualistic relationship of co-operative fishing with traditional fishers. Fishers...

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Altered Schaedler flora
Rabu, 2022-10-05 23:36:46

the purpose of studying the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Intestinal mutualistic bacteria play an important role in affecting gene expression of the GI...

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Inga edulis
Selasa, 2026-05-12 06:04:51

mycorrhiza, as can other legumes. Surveys have shown that I. edulis forms a mutualistic relationship with Bradyrhizobium bacteria. Flowers Mature and young pods...

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Clavicipitaceae
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:43:51

jumping, and the range of this large and heterogeneous fungal group spans mutualistic plant symbionts, as well as parasites of plants, insects, and other fungi...

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Amphiprion akindynos
Minggu, 2025-09-28 11:04:17

Fautin DG; Allen GR (2007). "Finding NEMO: nestedness engendered by mutualistic organization in anemonefish and their hosts". Proc R Soc B Biol Sci....

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Flora (microbiology)
Jumat, 2023-07-14 04:58:26

and the interactions between microbes. These interactions are often a mutualistic relationships between the host and autochthonous flora. Microflora responsible...

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Secondary metabolite
Jumat, 2026-05-22 22:31:10

antagonistic interactions, such as competition and predation, as well as mutualistic ones such as pollination and resource mutualisms. Usually, secondary...

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Electric ant
Jumat, 2026-04-10 16:32:33

vegetation, seeds, and plants. These ants also consume honeydew and engage in mutualistic symbiotic relationships with other herbivorous insects, such as aphids...

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Black coral
Senin, 2026-05-25 05:36:39

Francesca; Bavestrello, Giorgio (2011). "First description of algal mutualistic endosymbiosis in a black coral (Anthozoa: Antipatharia)". Marine Ecology...

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Pale-throated sloth
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:55:58

centimetres (3.9 in) long, with a finer undercoat. Green algae live mutualistically between the microscopic scales on the surface of the guard hairs, giving...

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