They were, he said with ardent enthusiasm, the next step in the historic process by which successively greater portions of the cosmos enter into a symbiotic relationship with man.
But if the plants themselves are independent of dung, it is not so, apparently, with the symbiotic nodules, which seem to flourish far more vigorously in rich garden ground than they do in comparatively poor farm land.
This fact was first pointed out in so-called lichens, which are now shown to be complex bodies consisting of a fungus and an alga, living in symbiotic community for the mutual benefit of each.
What the West failed to realize was that communism was a collaborative effort - a symbiotic co-existence of the rulers and the ruled, a mutual undertaking and an all-pervasive pathology.
An association of two organisms to their mutual advantage is known as symbiosis, and the lichen in botanical language is described as a symbiotic union of an alga and a fungus.
Shelford (1909) found one male and one female of Balta platysoma in a nest of a spider of the genus Phryganoporus and assumed a symbiotic association.
Desoxyribose nucleic acid in the symbiotic microorganisms of the cockroach, Blattella germanica.
The bacterium digested cellulose rapidly in vitro and these workers believe that this cockroach and other related wood-feeding species are dependent on symbiotic bacteria for the digestion of their food.
To the best of our knowledge no previous publication has brought together the vast literature on the parasites, predators, commensals, and other symbiotic associates of the Blattaria.
A cellulase from the symbiotic intestinal flagellates of termites and of the roach, Cryptocercus punctulatus.
Chance must play a very considerable part in first bringing symbiotic or commensal partners together.
The significance of the symbiotic Xanthellae for the respiration of the enclosing Radiolaria may be shown experimentally in the following way.
Often it encloses a variable number of "yellow cells" (becoming green by mineral acids) to be considered as symbiotic xanthellae.
In many species the central capsule encloses Xanthellae or symbiotic yellow unicellular Algae.
The light of one animal at least, and I believe many others also, cannot be due to any sort of symbiotic organism.
They have found ways to join a symbiotic relationship with the life forms on this planet.
The magter must have caught the symbiotic infection eating some Disan animal.
The green-fly and its yeast plant have a permanent symbiotic relationship that is essential to the existence of both.
I don't know the exact details, but the reports are very enthusiastic about symbiotic relationships.
This thin, helpless, frightened woman was his only resource.
The doctor grunted deep in his beard and looked Brion's immense frame up and down.
Individuals died, usually in enormous pain, but the race lived.
When conditions are favorable, these bacteria live in symbiotic relationship with the plant tissues, receiving carbonaceous and other food material from them and in return furnishing nitrogenous compounds to the plant.
These are called symbionts or symbiotic parasites and the mutual relationship symbiosis.
Certain fungi can digest cellulose and lignin, as can the symbiotic bacteria inhabiting a cow's rumen.
