(When a symbiotic relationship is good for the host, it is "mutualistic" and if it's bad for the host, then it deserves the label "parasitic".).    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Wright: The Trouble with the New Atheists: Part II] Reference

"mutualistic," a huge cooperative, a mediate form between individualism and collectivism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Der Judenstaat. English] Reference

Golf courses and geese are a twisted mutualistic sort of deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Home-school textbook market dominated by books skeptical of evolution.] Reference

There are many types of symbiotic relationships, not all of them mutualistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animals, Humans, and the Nature (or Nurture) of Fear] Reference

There are too many social implications to a human-animal mutualistic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animals, Humans, and the Nature (or Nurture) of Fear] Reference

They compete, prey upon each other, coexist without interacting, and engage in mutualistic interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious] Reference

As opposed to parasitism, this kind of relationship would be considered more of a mutualistic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symbiosis in Science Fiction] Reference

Microbe – plant interactions can be competitive for nutrients and also mutualistic through mycorrhizal associations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

On the other hand, co-evolution can be a mutualistic relationship, often characterized by the ants and an acacia tree of South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere] Reference

Complex mutualistic relationships between different species of animals have evolved independently many times during the history of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Of the 4 species of ants that are in mutualistic relations with acacia trees, one, Crematogaster mimosae, occupies ~52% of host trees under natural conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

From a population biology point of view, domesticated turkeys are doing better in strictly quantitative terms as a population in mutualistic partnership with humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [So what's so wrong with a "WYSIWYG" world?] Reference

Many mutualisms involve species living closely together (symbiosis); a species may be so dependent that it cannot live without its mutualistic partner (obligate mutualism).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mutualism] Reference

In the artificial rice-fish mutualistic ecosystem, green plants are the primary producers that convert solar energy into the food energy the fish require for their survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

If they work together in a mutualistic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random Curiosity] Reference

Never was this mutualistic relationship more evident than when the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faded Youth Blog] Reference

Plant-ants live in a mutualistic association with host plants known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants Science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

That suggests these supposedly "meat-eating" plants have evolved a mutualistic relationship with tree shrews.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Perhaps not surprisingly, mutualistic relationships between bacteria and host organisms aren't limited to insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

Leaf-cutter ants use fresh plant material to grow a mutualistic fungus that serves as the ants 'primary food source.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In the early stages of a mutualistic relationship, a bacterium must be able to survive on its own in addition to within a host organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

The same goes for belief systems, which can be virulent, predatory, and aggressively competitive in addition to commensal or mutualistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Some fishes have their own photophores and some borrow their light in a mutualistic relationship with luminescent bacteria living on or within.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria] Reference

Toft and Andersson say that as a mutualistic relationship becomes more advanced, genomes in mutualistic bacteria become progressively smaller.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

We're coming to the realization that we are, in fact, symbiotes, composite organisms, living a mutualistic existence not unlike that of Lichen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference

Equality of women and men, universal education, progressive revelation, oneness of humanity, mutualistic democracy, human rights = British invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd. pp. Herrera CM (1985) Determinants of plant-animal coevolution: the case of mutualistic dispersal of seeds by vertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Members of the bean family (legumes) and some other kinds of plants form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with certain types of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Since evolutionary trends may reverse themselves as in the case of parasites or mutualistic symbionts, we expect no thoughtful direction to our increase in complexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

As the relations between ants and the various Homoptera have been regarded as mutualistic, it may be well to marshal the facts which seem to warrant this interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

While it's impossible to reconstruct the evolution of mitochondria with certainty, other mutualistic bacteria can give us insight into how mitochondria may have evolved.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

Its more of a mutualistic relationship then the parasitic one that everyone imagines. on 08/23/2010, -5/+34I was to busy looking at comic books on my iPad to read this story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Old ecologists frequently tell young ecologists that to fully appreciate the earth's myriad mutualistic and competitive plant and animal interactions, they must visit the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference

Pure is mutualistic and responsible caring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

(2006) Asymmetries in specialization in ant-plant mutualistic networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference