This article argues that the ecological turn towards biological mutualism enlivens our understanding of eschatological promise contained in Christ’s resurrected and ascended body. I examine implications proposing body was not only incarnate as microbiome, but also rose microbiome. First, analyse contemporary approaches to Christology’s relation creation Andrew Davison’s theological exploration ...

Plants, and all other living things, require nitrogen for growth; it is an essential component of nucleic acids and proteins. Although air is mostly nitrogen, this gaseous form is inaccessible to plants and must be fixed into ammonium to render it biologically relevant. Soil bacteria called rhizobia fix nitrogen, but to do this they must first take up residence inside the roots of legumes like ...

A new study reveals that an apparent mutualism between lycaenid caterpillars and their attendant ants may not be all it seems, as the caterpillars produce secretions that modify the brains and behavior of their attendant ants.

Elementary ecology texts tell us that organisms interact in three fundamental ways, generally given the names competition, predation, and mutualism. The third member has gotten short shrift (264), and even its name is not generally agreed on. Terms that may be considered synonyms, in whole or part, are symbiosis, commensalism, cooperation, protocooperation, mutual aid, facilitation, reciprocal ...

Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature despite the widely held view that they are unstable interactions. Models predict that mutualists might often evolve into parasites, can abandon their partners to live autonomously and are also vulnerable to extinction. Yet a basic empirical question, whether mutualisms commonly break down, has been mostly overlooked. As we discuss here, recent progress in mol...

We asked whether Rex exclusion encoded by a lambda prophage confers a protective or a cell-killing phenotype. We found that the Rex system can channel lysogenic cells into an arrested growth phase that gives an overall protective ability to the host despite some associated killing.

X iv :1 40 9. 16 83 v1 [ qbi o. PE ] 5 S ep 2 01 4 Does mutualism hinder biodiversity? Alberto Pascual-Garćıa, Antonio Ferrera and Ugo Bastolla (1) Centro de Biologia Molecular ”Severo Ochoa” CSIC-UAM Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain (2) Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Estad́ıstica E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3, Madrid 28040, Spain (3) E...