At some point in its evolution, the tubeworm ditched its own gut and now depends entirely on an internal symbiotic organ called the trophosome—home to intracellular, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria that the ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, have analyzed the evolutionary ...

Of particular interest is quorum sensing, a form of bacterial communication known to coordinate gene expression in density-dependent bacteria. The importance of understanding the symbiotic ...

"These fungi are what we call biotrophs; they can't get the nutrients they need on their own, so they form a symbiotic relationship ... into the soil to recruit bacteria, which then break down ...