List of symbiotic relationships
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
This is an incomplete list of notable mutualistic symbiotic relationships, in which different species have a cooperative or mutually dependent relationship.
- Algae with fungi in lichens
- Vascular plants with fungi in mycorrhiza
- Anglerfish with the bioluminescent bacteria that illuminate its 'lure'
- Ants with aphids and with some caterpillars
- Cleaner fish or cleaner shrimp with other large fish like groupers, sharks and moray eels
- Corals with zooxanthella
- Flowering plants with pollinators such as bees
- Goby fish with shrimp
- Humans with cultivated plants and with domesticated animals
- Leafcutter ants with the fungus they 'farm'
- Legumes with Rhizobia (nitrogen-fixing bacteria)
- Deep-sea pompeii worm and the thermophilic bacteria which grow on it
- Ratel or 'honey badger' with the honeyguide bird
- Ruminants such as cows and their intestinal bacteria which break down cellulose
- Sea anemones with clownfish, crabs or shrimps
- Termites with their intestinal bacteria which digest cellulose
- Egyptian plovers with crocodiles
- acacia ant(Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) and a swollen thorn acacia tree
- Oxpeckers with the rhinoceros
- Polydnavirus with parasitoid wasps (though not necessarily mutually dependant)
