Sentences with phrase «studied symbiotic relationship»

While working with schizophrenic clients, Bowen studied the symbiotic relationship between children and their mothers.
«This discovery overturns our longstanding assumptions about the best - studied symbiotic relationship on the planet,» said Aime, professor of botany and plant pathology.
Cary studies the symbiotic relationship between the worm and bacteria that live in a mucus membrane on its back, which it points towards the vent opening.

Not exact matches

A symbiotic shift between such distantly related species as the worms and the crab is rare because organisms in a mutualistic relationship tend to be specialized and completely dependent on one other, says study coauthor Momoko Igawa, an ecologist at Kyoto University in Japan.
Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.
Studies on symbiotic relationships between ants and myrmecophytic plants should not overlook the role of bacterial partners that help the ants protect «their» plants.
«We are learning that these two fundamentally different cells are changing each other dramatically, and this might be relevant for other symbiotic systems, including human and parasitic microbe relationships,» said study co-author Eunsoo Kim, an assistant curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
This apparently symbiotic relationship within tumors has provocative implications for the study and treatment of human cancers.
The Harrison lab also studies how plants find and take up phosphorus from the soil when they do not have these symbiotic relationships with fungi.
«Corals live in a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, which are plant - like cells hosted in surface tissues that provide up to 90 % of the energy to the colony,» said Stephen Simpson, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter in the UK, commenting on the study.
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