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

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.

Ants protect acacia plants against pathogens Date: January 15, 2014 Source: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Summary: The presence of mutualistic ants greatly reduces bacterial abundance ...

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

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 ...

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.