Some plants and animals could not survive without a close relationship with another living thing. Symbiotic Relationships: Animals and Plants Working Togetherlo

Heard about the fish that clean shark teeth? Or the frog that lives with a tarantula? Welcome to the weird world of symbiosis—where animals form incredible re

Plants and animals have evolved ever since their appearance in a largely microbial world. Their own cells are less numerous than the microorganisms that they ho

In the nearly 60 years since Watson and Crick proposed the double helical structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, waves of discoveries have made genetics th

The associations between insects and microorganisms, while pervasive and of paramount ecological importance, have been relatively poorly understood. The third b