Mutualism is an essential ecological relationship. Read about how it works in nature and watch a short clip of it taking ...

A symbiotic relationship is a long-term interaction between animal species that is beneficial for one or both animals. There are different forms: Parasitism: One species is harmed, but one benefits.

Erol Akçay, a biology professor at Penn, recently conducted a research about mutualism in ecosystems. New research from a Penn professor and a Penn alum shows that mutually beneficial relationships ...

Endosymbiotic relationships -- in which one organism lives within another -- are striking examples of mutualism, and can often significantly shape the biology of the participant species. In new ...

A recent paper by researchers at Appalachian State University and Virginia Tech, published in the journal Ecology, titled: “Strong effects of a mutualism on freshwater community structure,” shows how ...

Many studies of evolution focus on the benefits to the individual of competing successfully -- those who survive produce the most offspring, in Darwin's classic 'survival of the fittest'. But how does ...

So, it's possible that some types of figs may have dead fig wasps inside them.

Scientists discovered that swollen-thorn acacias invested more in ant rewards during a drought, suggesting that mutualistic interactions play a crucial role in the plant’s survival, even during ...

Heteroatom tin compounds (SSn, OSn, NSn, PSn) composed of heteroatoms S, O, N, P and tin atoms have attracted intense attention due to their wide applications in organic synthesis and pharmaceutical ...

A second Bartel collage, “Glorious Mutualism, Asymmetrical yet Reciprocal — 21st-Century Commensalism,” features two main images. On the left, a man is attempting to cut a huge tree into pieces with a ...