Chance must play a very considerable part in first bringing symbiotic orcommensal partners together.
The flagellate does not harm the host and is never present in the host tissue; it should be considered a commensal (Kudo, 1926).
The shells of hermit-crabs serve frequently as the home of other animals which live with them a commensal life.
They are supposed to be commensal in habit and live in the deeper water offshore.
Recent petroleum development near Prudhoe Bay has resulted in a somewhat commensal eastward shift in ornithological studies.
The subcaste or commensal group was the direct evolutionary product of the pre-existing tribe.
Since all the citizens of the Roman State participated in a common sacrifice, they might be considered as a single caste, or even a subcaste or commensal group.
As already seen, when members of a subcaste migrated to a fresh local area, and were cut off from communication with those remaining behind, they tended as a rule to form a fresh endogamous and commensal group.
Very many Radiolaria, but by no means all members of this class, live in a definite commensal relation with yellow unicellular Algae of the group Xanthellae.
This commensal life may be compared with that of the lichens, in which an organism with vegetable metastasis (the Algoid gonidia) and an organism with animal metastasis (the Fungoid hyphae) are intimately united for mutual benefit.
Pinnotheres, living as a commensalin bivalves; esp.
Pinnotheres ostreum) which lives as a commensal in the gill cavity of the oyster.
Pinnotheres ostreum) which lives as a commensal in the gill cavity of the oyster.
Pinnotheres, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp.
It is of the piedmont type, created by three commensal streams of ice.
It is of the piedmont type of glacier, that is, has its source from a number of commensal streams of ice, fed by snow falling upon the eastern slopes of the Ten Peaks.
Commensals Rainey (1956) listed many kinds of small animals that use the houses of the eastern woodrat and live in more or lesscommensal relationships with these rodents.
Of the animals which share the woodrat's habitat, many small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates use its houses and live in a somewhat commensal relationship.
