Meanings of mutualist in English

Conclusions: It was demonstrated that strong non-additive benefits and costs can both occur when a plant and herbivore share mutualist partners.

As a wasp mutualist symbiont, the virus is expected to exhibit a reduction in genome complexity and evolve under wasp phyletic constraints.

Here we show that temperature stress modulates the harm threatened by a common enemy, and thereby induces a phoretic mite to become a protective mutualist.

Little is known about the specific molecular mechanisms utilized by bacterial mutualists to temper their hosts' responses and protect themselves from aggressive immune attack.

The Socialist movement revived only after 1864, when some French working men, all ''mutualists,'' meeting in of Robert Owen, founded the International Working Men's Association.