News tagged with symbiotic relationships
Legume lessons: Reducing fertilizer use through beneficial microbe reactions
Janine Sherrier, professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware, is part of a team that has been awarded $6.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study ...
May 10, 2012 |
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Carnivorous plants rely on the services and wastes of a symbiotic ant for nutrition
In a mutualistic relationship between an ant species and a carnivorous plant, the ants contribute to both prey capture and prey digestion of their host-plant and provide significant amounts of nutrients derived from their ...
May 09, 2012 |
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Bacteria tend leafcutter ants' gardens
(PhysOrg.com) -- Leafcutter ants, the tiny red dots known for carrying green leaves as they march through tropical forests, are also talented farmers that cultivate gardens of fungi and bacteria. Ants eat ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Symbiotic species reconnect across distances, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Species that are mutually dependent on each other can, in some cases, become separated and reconnect again over distances of thousands of miles, a new study from UC Berkeley has found.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Glowing squid thrive in symbiotic relationship
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria generally have a bad reputation – they’re good only for causing disease, and are best avoided. But Spencer Nyholm of the molecular and cell biology department in the College ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Genome analysis will reveal how bacteria in our guts make themselves at home
Researchers from the Institute of Food Research and The Genome Analysis Centre have published the genome sequence of a gut bacterium, to help understand how these organisms evolved their symbiotic relationships with their ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Fungus farming ant genome reveals insight into adaptation of social behavior
The development of agriculture was a significant event in human cultural evolution, but we are not the only organisms to have adopted an agricultural way of life. In a study published online today in Genome Re ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Microbe efficiencies could make better fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like mutual back-scratching, two common bacteria involved in what was thought to be only a marginally important relationship actually help each other thrive when grown together in bioreactors, ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Robots get their groove on in CA student orchestra
They can defuse bombs, help decontaminate nuclear power plants, even vacuum the living room floor without bashing into the furniture or knocking over a vase.
May 13, 2011 |
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How ants tame the wilderness: Rainforest species use chemicals to identify which plants to prune
Survival in the depths of the tropical rainforest not only depends on a species' ability to defend itself, but can be reliant on the type of cooperation researchers discovered between ants and tropical trees. ...
May 12, 2011 |
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Formidable fungal force counters biofuel plant pathogens
Fungi play significant ecological and economic roles. They can break down organic matter, cause devastating agricultural blights, enter into symbiotic relationships to protect and nourish plants, or offer ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Gut bacteria can control organ functions
Bacteria in the human gut may not just be helping digest food but also could be exerting some level of control over the metabolic functions of other organs, like the liver, according to research published this week in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Corals and humans have much in common, researchers find
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of Australian and Israeli coral geneticists, including scientists from University of Queensland, has found that corals, among the simplest of Earth's creatures, have some curiously human-like ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Scientists ashore assist in discovery of tubeworm colony off Cyprus
When a field of tubeworms was unexpectedly discovered on the side of a large underwater mountain 50 miles off the coast of Cyprus this summer, the finding was notable both for the discovery itself and for the process of the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Study shows how ancient plants and soil fungi turned the Earth green
A new breakthrough by scientists at the University of Sheffield has shed light on how the Earth's first plants began to colonise the land over 470 million years ago by forming a partnership with soil fungi.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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