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Meaning of "mutualistic"

mutualistic (adjective): Describing a symbiotic relationship between two organisms in which both benefit from the interaction. This term is commonly used in biology and ecology to explain mutually beneficial relationships
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Indirect effects shape coevolution in mutualistic networks.
Both of these mutualistic relationships enhance nutrient uptake.
This is typically understood as a mutualistic interaction.
Pollination is a mutualistic relationship between plants and insects.
Tofieldiae has not been cited as pathogenic or mutualistic of any host.
The bumblebee has a mutualistic relationship with flowers.
Mutualistic interactions in theoretical ecology and bacterial communities.
Cheating is common in many mutualistic and altruistic relationships.
Mutualistic fungi can enter at various orchid life stages.
Black caracaras have a mutualistic relationship with tapirs.
A mutualistic relationship at its finest.
This bacterium is often involved in mutualistic relationships with legumes.
The mutualistic relationship of these organisms requires adaptations of each partner.
Many insects also engage in mutualistic relationships with fungi.
This mutualistic association is found throughout the range of the ant.

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Such effects are most severe in mutualistic and parasitic relationships.
This relationship which benefited the beetles has been described as mutualistic.
This species forms a mutualistic relationship with coniferous trees.
Some types of goby fish and shrimp share a mutualistic relationship.
It is based on the mutualistic relation between rice and fish.
Mutualistic interactions are one of the main drivers of diversification of life on the earth.
Different lifestyles such as mutualistic and pathogenic have been proposed.
Mutualistic arrangements develop between organisms that have different living requirements.
These aphids sometimes have a mutualistic relationship with ants.
This mutualistic relationship between aphid and bacterium evolved millions of years ago.
There are many examples of mutualistic ectosymbiosis that occur in nature.
This provides a benefit for both plant and ant in a mutualistic relationship.
It becomes mutualistic and benign.
The general dynamic differs between competitive systems and mutualistic systems.
The strength of the mutualistic interaction was dependent on food availability.
Studies about interaction networks have aided in understand of the dynamics of mutualistic relationships.
They may form mutualistic associations under certain conditions.
The clownfish and the sea anemone form a mutualistic symbiotic relationship.
There are many mutualistic relationships within the ecosystem of the rainforest.
The bracatinga is a leguminous tree able to establish mutualistic symbiosis with diazotrophic organisms.
Among the most mutualistic human to animal relationship has been with the horse.
Many plants and fungi exchange carbon and nutrients in mutualistic mycorrhizal relationships.
The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity.
Hemsleyana is yet another plant which has formed a mutualistic relationship with bats.
Marine iguanas have mutualistic and commensal relationships with several other animals.
Some relationships between humans and domesticated animals and plants are to different degrees mutualistic.
The global level comprised mutualistic networks in different regions of the globe.
Mutualistic arrangements are most likely to develop between organisms with widely different living requirements.
These insects maintain a mutualistic interaction with fungi cultured for food.
Some pistol shrimp species share burrows with goby fishes in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship.
The classical example of mutualistic coevolution involves a parasite and its host.
Endophytic microorganisms inhabit plant tissues asymptomatically and establish a mutualistic relationship with their hosts.
This new definition recognizes a mutualistic relationship in which both partners gain benefits.
The mutualistic nature of these symbioses is based on the nutritional exchanges between the partners.
The oxpecker is a bird that has a mutualistic relationship with a rhino or a zebra.

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