A recent flower event strongly recommends a vocabulary update. Botanists assign the corpse flower to the genus Amorphophallus, a group at or just over 200 species classified in Araceae, the Arum ...

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Symbiosis is from the Greek for “living together.” A symbiosis is any sort of persistent interaction between two species. Forms of symbiosis include parasitism, which involves a species living off a ...

There’s a beautiful example of symbiotic mutualism playing out in our oceans: the pairing of the great goby fish and pistol ...

The mutualistic association between Vibrio fischeri and the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes has long served as an exemplary model for the study of host–microbe interactions. In this symbiosis, V.

Teamwork makes the dream work, even in nature. When different species work together for their mutual benefit, it is called symbiosis (or mutualism) — a process that is essential for the health of ...

Corals are keystone species for reef and marine ecosystems but coral bleaching due to climate change and ocean warming is killing them. A new open access study by researchers at the University of ...