Sentences with phrase «partner symbiosis»
The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.
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Team member Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading, speculates that «symbioses are evolutionarily unstable... as it's inevitable that natural selection causes the partners to exploit one another.»
«However, recent work has shown that at least some of the fungal partners in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses lack the genes for enzymes involved in the major pathway of lipid biosynthesis, and are therefore unable to produce certain essential fatty acids,» Gutjahr explains.
Recent findings emphasize the importance of investigating members of the archaeal domain of life in order to obtain a more comprehensive view of microbial ecology, symbiosis, and metabolic interdependencies involving archaeal partners, and of evolution of life on Earth in regard to the deep roots of archaea as well as our microbial ancestry.
A better understanding of the role of lipid biosynthesis in this type of symbiosis could therefore help to select host plants that can make optimal use of their relationship with their fungal partners, which can be a benefit to sustainable agriculture.
«It's a dynamite study... which promotes the view that underlying symbioses are conflicts of interest between the partners.»
«Yeast emerges as hidden third partner in lichen symbiosis.»
We are also interested in how the symbiosis between fungi and microorganisms has evolved and how this benefits both symbiotic partners.»
«Ant - plant symbioses: Adapting to changes in partner abundance.»
The findings revealed that in some cases, the fungal partner of this symbiosis streamlined its mitochondrial genome, much like a couple moving in together might get rid of duplicate household furnishings.
In the present study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the scientists from Mainz and Jena showed that the protective symbiosis between beewolves and their bacterial partners has not only existed since the Cretaceous (see also our press release, «Faithful allies since the Cretaceous,» April 15, 2014); moreover, the antibiotic protection offered by the bacteria against pathogens has changed very little since it evolved about 68 million years ago.
However, since I like to pick challenging projects, the symbioses between bacteria and marine invertebrates I was studying could not be cultivated in the lab and neither symbiosis partner could live without the other (s).
Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the basic biology of this beetle - fungal symbiosis, and this problem is fundamental: the beetle can not survive in the absence of its fungal partners.
And limbs grasp, embrace and overlap one another in undefined material symbioses between partnered bodies.
The exhibition focuses on Moser's architectural work in its unusually close relationship with the visual arts, a complex symbiosis comprising the often exhaustive artistic appointment of his constructions, his collaboration with artists as partners on his projects, Moser's own artistic ambitions and, last but not least, his buildings dedicated expressly to art.