In symbiosis, at least one member of the pair benefits from the relationship. The other member may be injured (parasitism), relatively unaffected (commensalism), or may benefit as well (mutualism). In ...

In a recent study published in the Cell Host & Microbe Journal, researchers explored commensalism and pathogenesis relationships in the human mycobiome. Study: One population, multiple lifestyles ...

These relationships are usually classified into five categories namely, Competition, Predation, Parasitism, Mutualism and Commensalism. Competition – This is a relationship formed between ...

However, how gut fungal commensals affect immunity is less well understood, due in part to the lack of a good mouse model of fungal commensalism. The new study, reported Nov. 27 in Nature ...

Different patterns of co-existence are present in nature. These are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. In mutualism, both organisms, bacteria and host, benefit. Commensalism is beneficial to ...

Species help each other, directly or indirectly, which scientists refer to as mutualism or commensalism. For example, a species’ success may rely not only upon the survival of its food source ...

“We now think that this peptide we discovered is actually important for maintaining fungal commensalism in the gut.” Chang and his team didn’t set to explore the fungal side of the gut ...