Sentences with phrase «symbiotic species»

This enemy - driven phenotypic divergence in a diversifying lineage illustrates the potential importance of consumer - resource and symbiotic species interactions in adaptive radiation.

This highlights the value of investigating host — microbe relationships from all branches of the tree of life, including those in which only a single symbiotic species is involved.

«Because symbioses are so common, understanding how symbiotic species interact and how they evolve will tell us a lot about ecosystems and how they will respond to climate change.»

The surprising discovery is providing a new look at how symbiotic species evolve.

The researchers found many types of marine bacteria, including symbiotic species that may help the fish digest algae.

Prior plans to continue her research further into how complex interactions between symbiotic species shape ecosystems and how global change can also have a significant impact on altering these important interactions.

«I was interested in the evolution of cooperation,» she says, «and fungi and plants are models for understanding how symbiotic species interact — how the relationship is policed and maintained.»

Not exact matches

In the case of the human species, we have evolved not only in a symbiotic relationship with the physical environment of the earth but with another kind of environment, known as human culture.

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.

The presence of the Sciaphila yakushimensis, a parasitic species that relies on fungal hosts, is also evidence that a hidden network of symbiotic relationships between fungi and roots (mycorrhizae) exists in the lowland primeval forests of Yakushima.

The nearest bacterial cousin is a symbiotic bacterial species found in the tsetse fly, another blood feeding parasite.

But, careful inspection with a high - powered microscope, revealed that the large and small worms were different species — so that theory was completely blown away, and we realized that a symbiotic relationship was most likely.

Forestry Planting symbiotic mushroom species could speed reforestation in clear - cut woodlands.

The discovery that specific yeasts act as third symbiotic partners in lichens began with an investigation into why two lichen species seemed genetically identical but had distinctive attributes.

The putative archaeal host existed in a stable symbiotic relationship with one or more bacterial species, with the capacity for both gene and lipid exchange between species.

Adult corals of the species Pocillopora damicornis get most of their nutrition from symbiotic algae that live inside them, providing metabolic energy by photosynthesis.

Many ant species live in often highly specific symbiotic relationships with plants from which both partners benefit.

Some of the colors of both species come from symbiotic algae that live inside the coral animal's cells.

The 25,000 or so species can be found on every continent, where they grow with the help of symbiotic fungi that nourish them with carbohydrates.

They say that genes from wasps have been transferred to several butterfly species, including the monarch, by symbiotic viruses used as biological weapons by parasitic wasps.

The cross sections above show that the roots of plants such as the subtropical oak species Lithocarpus chintungensis (largest cross section, center left) and the tropical species Parashorea chinensis (lower - right of largest cross section) retained their ancestral thickness and reliance on the symbiotic fungi (purple ring) that surround the root to help it obtain nutrients.

Ants and aphids coexist in a symbiotic relationship that benefits both species.

These insects team up with symbiotic bacteria which produce an antibiotic cocktail of up to 45 different substances within a single species to protect their offspring against mold fungi.

As plant species spread from their nutrient - rich tropical origins, however, the root tips of plants such as the desert shrub species Tamarix ramosissima (left of largest cross section) evolved to be thinner so they could more efficiently explore soil for nutrients, and they have less dependence on symbiotic fungi.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

Symbiotic relationships are when two species interact closely over a prolonged time.

Such symbiotic relationships in which two species are dependent upon one another to varying extents also served as crucial elements of the evolution of eukaryotic cells.

For instance, many deep - sea fish harbor symbiotic bacteria that emit light, which the fish use to signal other members of their species.

A symbiotic relationship is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two (or more) different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each species.

Meanwhile, Bordenstein and other scientists are working to determine exactly how symbiotic microbes can help split one species into two.

Bordenstein believed that a symbiotic bacterium called Wolbachia might be keeping the two species apart.

symbiosis (adj. symbiotic) A relationship between two species that live in close contact.

Coevolution, which occurs when species interact and adapt to each other, is often studied in the context of pair-wise interactions between mutually beneficial symbiotic...

Condemning Felis catus ignores the real causes of species loss, reveals a disturbing ignorance of the long - standing symbiotic relationship between outdoor cats and human civilization, and betrays a startling lack of understanding of the feeding habits of outdoor cats.

I don't see it as unnatural to keep prey species and make the symbiotic bargain of taking care of them rather than hunting.

Some mushrooms have a symbiotic relation with some species of Trees (at the root level), Wild Pigs eat this mushrooms and help to spread the spores of the fungi through the Forest.

Humans are the one species that has a choice to be either parasitic or symbiotic.

It's possible that certain types of symbiotic algae are more heat - resistant than others, or that some of the hardier species of corals had more energy reserves built up before they bleached.

Similarly in response to changes in sunlight, the same species will alter their symbiotic partnerships as irradiance declines at increasing depths or when and where water turbidity alters irradiance.

Before asking why in the world would someone want to sell their rooftop to another family, it's good to note the architects came up with the concept by considering biological mutualism: those cases in which two species have a symbiotic relationship which benefits each other.