symbiosis
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Located at the bottom of the world, it’s hard to imagine a place more closely connected to nature, where New Zealand’s Māori communities have long lived in symbiosis with the land.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
"Most life on Earth is microbial, driving nutrient cycles and ecosystem function while revealing new dimensions of biological diversity through symbiosis," said Grosell.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
"I think there's a really nice symbiosis between the two of them, but honestly a lot of it is work, it's connecting off the pitch, it's preparation and it's understanding what they see."
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Nothing captures Mr. Sankar’s ardent pursuit of a private-public defense symbiosis better than his call to seek out “heretics” and elevate them to positions of military and strategic authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
These, under high magnification, turn out to be bacteria, living in symbiosis with the spirochetes and the protozoan, probably contributing enzymes that break down the cellulose.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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"These areas likely harbor similar microbial symbioses, which means that these interactions impact ecosystem functioning on a global scale."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
These deeply intimate symbioses are everywhere in nature, forming the foundation of the living world.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
It is one of the oldest and most successful symbioses in nature, said Toby Spribille, a lichen expert at the University of Graz in Austria, and the lead author of the new paper.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
Animals in this phylum show parasitic and commensal symbioses with other species in their habitat.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
In the 1960s Lynn Margulis posited that the mitochondria in our cells and chloroplasts in plant cells were relictual bacteria, evidence of ancient symbioses.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2012
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