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List of symbiotic relationships

Index List of symbiotic relationships

Symbiosis can vary between mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism, though these grade into each other,. [1]

65 relations: Actinorhizal plant, Aliivibrio fischeri, Alvinella pompejana, Anglerfish, Annelid, Aphid, Bacteria, Bioluminescence, Buchnera (bacterium), Carpenter bee, Cattle, Chlorella, Ciliate, Cleaning symbiosis, Cnidaria, Codium fragile, Commensalism, Coral, Cryptomonad, Diatom, Dicarboxylic acid, Dinoflagellate, Elysia viridis, Endophyte, Euprymna scolopes, Flatworm, Foraminifera, Frankia, Fungus, Golden algae, Green algae, Hydra viridissima, Interspecies friendship, Labroides, Legume, Lichen, List of symbiotic organisms, Malic acid, Mole salamander, Mollusca, Mutualism (biology), Mycorrhiza, Nitrogen fixation, Oophila, Orphium, Parasitism, Photosynthesis, Poaceae, Polydnavirus, Protist, ..., Rhizobia, Riftia pachyptila, Ruminant, Solemya velum, Species, Sponge, Succinic acid, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Termite, Tetraselmis, Vascular plant, Wasp, Xylocopa violacea, Zoochlorella, Zooxanthellae. Expand index (15 more) »

Actinorhizal plant

Actinorhizal plants are a group of angiosperms characterized by their ability to form a symbiosis with the nitrogen fixing actinobacteria Frankia.

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Aliivibrio fischeri

Aliivibrio fischeri is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium found globally in marine environments.

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Alvinella pompejana

Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii worm, is a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms").

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Anglerfish

Anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes.

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Annelid

The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.

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Aphid

Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.

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Buchnera (bacterium)

Buchnera aphidicola, a member of the Proteobacteria, is the primary endosymbiont of aphids, and has been studied in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.

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Carpenter bee

Carpenter bees are species in the genus Xylocopa of the subfamily Xylocopinae.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Chlorella

Chlorella is a genus of single-celled green algae belonging to the division Chlorophyta.

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Ciliate

The ciliates are a group of protozoans characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to eukaryotic flagella, but are in general shorter and present in much larger numbers, with a different undulating pattern than flagella.

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Cleaning symbiosis

Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client).

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Cnidaria

Cnidaria is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic (freshwater and marine) environments: they are predominantly marine species.

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Codium fragile

Codium fragile, known commonly as green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers, Intertidal Organisms EZ ID Guides.

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Commensalism

Commensalism is a long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Cryptomonad

The cryptomonads (or cryptophytes) are a group of algae, most of which have plastids.

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Diatom

Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-ō, "I cut".) are a major group of microorganisms found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.

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Dicarboxylic acid

A dicarboxylic acid is an organic compound containing two carboxyl functional groups (−COOH).

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Dinoflagellate

The dinoflagellates (Greek δῖνος dinos "whirling" and Latin flagellum "whip, scourge") are a large group of flagellate eukaryotes that constitute the phylum Dinoflagellata.

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Elysia viridis

Elysia viridis, the sap-sucking slug, is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae.

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Endophyte

An endophyte is an endosymbiont, often a bacterium or fungus, that lives within a plant for at least part of its life cycle without causing apparent disease.

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Euprymna scolopes

Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island.

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Flatworm

The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth-, meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.

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Foraminifera

Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.

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Frankia

Frankia is a genus of nitrogen-fixing, filamentous bacteria that live in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants, similar to the Rhizobium bacteria found in the root nodules of legumes in the family Fabaceae.

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Fungus

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Golden algae

The Chrysophyceae, usually called chrysophytes, chrysomonads, golden-brown algae or golden algae are a large group of algae, found mostly in freshwater.

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Green algae

The green algae (singular: green alga) are a large, informal grouping of algae consisting of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta, which are now placed in separate divisions, as well as the more basal Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae and Spirotaenia.

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Hydra viridissima

Hydra viridissima (also known as Hydra viridis and Chlorohydra viridissima), or the green hydra, is a species of freshwater hydroid polyp in the genus ''Hydra'' found widely dispersed in the northern temperate zone.

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Interspecies friendship

An interspecies friendship is a bond that is formed between animals of different species.

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Labroides

Labroides is a genus of wrasses native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Legume

A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).

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Lichen

A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.

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List of symbiotic organisms

This is a list of organisms that are true symbiotes with other organisms.

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Malic acid

Malic acid is an organic compound with the molecular formula C4H6O5.

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Mole salamander

The mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma) are a group of advanced salamanders endemic to North America, the only genus in the family Ambystomatidae.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Mutualism (biology)

Mutualism or interspecific cooperation is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other.

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Mycorrhiza

A mycorrhiza (from Greek μύκης mýkēs, "fungus", and ῥίζα rhiza, "root"; pl. mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular host plant.

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Nitrogen fixation

Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3) or other molecules available to living organisms.

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Oophila

Oophila amblystomatis, commonly known as chlamydomonad algae or salamander algae, is a species of single-celled green algae.

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Orphium

Orphium is a plant genus in the Gentian family (Gentianaceae), endemic to South Africa.

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Parasitism

In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Polydnavirus

A polydnavirus (PDV) is a member of the family Polydnaviridae of insect viruses.

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Protist

A protist is any eukaryotic organism that has cells with nuclei and is not an animal, plant or fungus.

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Rhizobia

Rhizobia are bacteria that fix nitrogen (diazotrophs) after becoming established inside root nodules of legumes (Fabaceae).

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Riftia pachyptila

Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as giant tube worms, are marine invertebrates in the phylum Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora and Vestimentifera) related to tube worms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones.

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Ruminant

Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions.

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Solemya velum

Solemya velum, the Atlantic awning clam, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Solemyidae, the awning clams.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sponge

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning "pore bearer"), are a basal Metazoa clade as sister of the Diploblasts.

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Succinic acid

Succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid with the chemical formula (CH2)2(CO2H)2.

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Symsagittifera roscoffensis

Symsagittifera roscoffensis, whose vernacular name is the "Roscoff worm" or "mint-sauce worm", is a marine flatworm belonging to the phylum of Xenacoelomorpha.

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Termite

Termites are eusocial insects that are classified at the taxonomic rank of infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamily Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.

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Tetraselmis

Tetraselmis is a genus of phytoplankton.

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Vascular plant

Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum: duct), also known as tracheophytes (from the equivalent Greek term trachea) and also higher plants, form a large group of plants (c. 308,312 accepted known species) that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.

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Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.

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Xylocopa violacea

Xylocopa violacea, the violet carpenter bee, is the common European species of carpenter bee, and one of the largest bees in Europe.

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Zoochlorella

Zoochlorella is a genus of green algae comprising one species, Z. parasitica.

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Zooxanthellae

Zooxanthellae are single-celled dinoflagellates that are able to live in symbiosis with marine invertebrates such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symbiotic_relationships

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