The mutualism between ant plants and their ant inhabitants is a classic example of biological teamwork. The plant offers a safe refuge, ... which is often scarce in rainforest soils.

While mutualism is highly complex, it can be roughly broken down into two types of relationship. Obligate mutualism is where the species are entirely dependent on each other ; Faculative mutualism is ...

Now, this mutualism ... harvesting as much as 17 percent of total leaf production in tropical rainforests and consuming more plants by volume than any other herbivore, ...

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism, and also ...

It’s well known that pollinators give us our favorite foods, from strawberries to sunflower seeds. But less familiar is what drives pollination: Mutualism. It’s an interaction between two ...