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- noun Plural form of
mutualism .
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Examples
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Plants and their pollinators are often in coevolutionary mutualisms.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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In many trophic mutualisms, a plant provides energy from photosynthesis to a partner species.
Mutualism 2008
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One of the tightest mutualisms known in nature is that between figs and wasps.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One of the tightest mutualisms known in nature is that between figs and wasps.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One of the tightest mutualisms known in nature is that between figs and wasps.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Defensive mutualisms are interactions in which one species receives food or shelter in return for protecting its partner species from predators or parasites.
Mutualism 2008
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Examples of mutualisms include Rhizobium bacteria growing in nodules on the roots of legume plants, insects pollinating the flowers of angiosperms, or cleaner fish and client fish.
Community ecology 2008
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Dispersive mutualisms are interactions in which one species receives food in exchange for moving the pollen or seeds of its partner.
Mutualism 2008
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Many mutualisms involve species living closely together (symbiosis); a species may be so dependent that it cannot live without its mutualistic partner (obligate mutualism).
Mutualism 2008
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Trophic mutualisms are interactions in which both species receive a benefit of resources.
Mutualism 2008
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