“This discovery overturns our longstanding assumptions about the best-studied symbiotic relationship on the planet,” study coauthor and Purdue mycologist M. Catherine Aime said in a press release.

Symbiosis is an association between at least two organisms where each may benefit from the relationship. The Living Edens: Palau has a number of examples of symbiosis that will bring this concept to ...

Generally speaking, symbiotic relationships are arrangements that are mutually beneficial to both organisms. One example of a typical animal-animal symbiotic relationship is that between sharks and ...

Our planet is full of incredible animals, and new creatures are being discovered every year. The way that animals have ...

Pass by any pastureland with grazing cattle and you’ll probably notice numerous birds accompanying the herd. The birds are cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis, stubby white critters with small blots of ...

After a year of studying up close the symbiotic relationship between a mosquito-sized bug and a fungus, a biologist has advanced the scientific understanding of biological diversity. Jeffrey Joy has ...

Dating back nearly 150 years, a classic example of symbiosis has been the lichen: a mutually helpful relationship between an alga and a fungus. Now, that well-known dualistic relationship is being ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a ...

The mutualistic relationship between leaf-cutting ants and their fungal cultivars, primarily Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, constitutes one of nature’s most intricate examples of symbiosis. This ...

The Latin roots of the word “symbiosis” mean living together. In the broadest sense, symbiosis refers to any close association of two (or more) different kinds of entities. A familiar example of ...