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Mutualisms as a framework for multi-robot collaboration [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AIBiology has inspired robotics since its inception as an academic discipline. However, the use of ecological principles in robotics is still relatively rare and in this paper, we explore how such principles can not only be of relevance to robotics, but ...
Alexander A. Nguyen +3 more
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mSphere, 2020 Amylostereum areolatum is the symbiotic fungus of the Eurasian woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, a globally invasive species. The mutualistic symbiont is associated with the woodwasp, assisting the damage process and providing nutrition for its insect partners ...
Ningning Fu +4 more
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How might bacteriophages shape biological invasions?
mBio, 2023 Invasions by eukaryotes dependent on environmentally acquired bacterial mutualists are often limited by the ability of bacterial partners to survive and establish free-living populations.
Jannick Van Cauwenberghe, Ellen L. Simms
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Plant Diversity, 2022 Glochidion (Phyllanthaceae; leafflower trees) is a genus of trees which is widely reported to be pollinated by leafflower moths (Gracillariidae: Epicephala) in temperate and subtropical Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands.
Pisal Chheang +3 more
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Synthetic Symbiosis under Environmental Disturbances
mSystems, 2020 By virtue of complex ecologies, the behavior of mutualisms is challenging to study and nearly impossible to predict. However, laboratory engineered mutualistic systems facilitate a better understanding of their bare essentials.
Jai A. Denton, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
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An environment-sensitive synthetic microbial ecosystem. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Microbial ecosystems have been widely used in industrial production, but the inter-relationships of organisms within them haven't been completely clarified due to complex composition and structure of natural microbial ecosystems. So it is challenging for
Bo Hu +3 more
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Cellular heterogeneity results from indirect effects under metabolic tradeoffs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The emergence and maintenance of multicellularity requires the coexistence of diverse cellular populations displaying cooperative relationships. This enables long-term persistence of cellular consortia, particularly under environmental constraints that ...
Aina Ollé-Vila, Ricard Solé
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Mutualistic interactions drive ecological niche convergence in a diverse butterfly community. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2008 Ecological communities are structured in part by evolutionary interactions among their members. A number of recent studies incorporating phylogenetics into community ecology have upheld the paradigm that competition drives ecological divergence among ...
Marianne Elias +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Molecular methods, established in the 1980s, expanded and delivered tools for the detection of vestigial quantities of nucleic acids in biological samples.
Fábio A. Abade dos Santos +8 more
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Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Semiarid ecosystems are threatened by global warming due to longer dehydration times and increasing soil degradation. Mounting evidence indicates that, given the current trends, drylands are likely to expand and possibly experience catastrophic shifts ...
Blai Vidiella +2 more
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