Plants with root nodules, for example, secrete compounds such as flavonoids when nitrates are scarce in the soil, helping to activate signaling pathways in nitrogen-fixing bacteria that then ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The term symbiosis was first used by Heinrich Anton de Bary 1, a German botanist, in 1879 to describe the relationships between fungi and ...

Our gut flora represent symbiosis on a massive scale. The diversity and huge numbers of bacteria living happily in our gut ...

This alliance is an example of mutualism, a form of symbiosis, an intimate relationship between different organisms whose survival depends on one another. Other examples include bacteria that ...

This is surprising because symbiotic relationships among plant and bacterial species ... program are to characterize the phylogenetic relationships among the Frankia bacteria responsible for nitrogen ...

A genomic study of hydrogen-producing bacteria has revealed entirely new gene clusters capable of producing large volumes of ...

Through repeated horizontal gene transfer and symbiotic relationships with bacteria, these insects have overcome significant ...

“The symbiosis started in ancient times, probably when the habitat was different, and now these bacteria are no longer present in the surrounding sediments of the animals,” said Corinaldesi. To ...