Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Mutualistic bacteria start out by invading animal cells just like malevolent disease-causing bacteria do. The good news? Once they're in, they calm down and play nice. Skip to main content.

Bacteria in the soil enhance the attractiveness of the plant's flowers to pollinators via a type of relationship known as ...

M13, the virus used by the researchers, is categorized as a bacteriophage because it targets bacteria. Although mutualism and parasitism are both examples of symbiosis, or interactions between two ...

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

Furthermore, mutualistic bacteria across several herbivorous insect taxa provide a core benefit: the aromatic amino acid tyrosine needed for the biosynthesis of the insect exoskeleton (cuticle).

This dependence is consistent with the addiction model of mutualism evolution; in this case, the endobacteria control the expression of ras2-1, a gene crucial to reproductive development, making ...

Thiamine provided by the bacteria helped the fungal filaments ... "Fungal mycelia and bacterial thiamine establish a mutualistic growth mechanism," was published in Life Science Alliance at DOI:10 ...

Mutualistic bacteria start out by invading animal cells just like malevolent disease-causing bacteria do. The good news? Once they’re in, they calm down and play nice.

Bacteria in the soil enhance the attractiveness of the plant's flowers to pollinators via a type of relationship known as mutualism that is widespread in plants and animals.