Words similar to mutualistic
Example sentences for: mutualistic
How can you use “mutualistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The same insects that transmit these devastating human parasites often possess a diversity of mutualistic and parasitic bacterial endosymbionts.
Symbiotic interactions, whether pathogenic or mutualistic, present novel challenges to both plant hosts and the biologists who study them.
Sequences expressed during mutualistic interactions were obtained from cultures with M. truncatula and mycorrhizal ( Glomus versiforme ; M.J.
At one end of the spectrum, beneficial endosymbionts provide essential nutrients to about 10%–15% of insects and provide models for highly specialized, long-term mutualistic associations (Figure 1).
Buchnera is a mutualistic endosymbiont of its host, but the pattern of reductions of numbers of genes among functional categories is similar between Buchnera and other fully sequenced small-genome bacteria, all obligate pathogens [ 8, 12, 15, 16].