In the Victorian poetry of A. L. Tennyson, formal artistry acts as starting point questioning fixed ideas and creating new perceptions what is beautiful, pure, real. Tennyson’s works are symbiotic not only with its contemporary movement Aestheticism but also posterior movements focusing on relation between Form, Object, Reality. His poetry, although it belongs to a specific period, in an axis s...

Legumes are able to form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria called rhizobia. The result of this symbiosis is to form nodules on the plant root, within which the bacteria can convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia that can be used by the plant. Establishment of a successful symbiosis requires the two symbiotic partners to be compatible with each other throughout the p...

Symbiotic interactions, where two species occur in close physical proximity for the majority of the participants' lifespans, may constrain the fitness of one or both of the participants. Host choice could result in lineage divergence in symbionts if fitness benefits vary across the interaction with hosts. Symbiotic interactions are common in the marine environment, particularly in the most dive...

Microbial symbionts are known to assist exotic pests in their colonization of new host plants. However, there has been little evidence linking symbiotic invasion success to mechanisms for mitigation of native plant resistance. The red turpentine beetle (RTB) was introduced with a fungus, Leptographium procerum, to China from the United States and became a destructively invasive symbiotic comple...

It is well accepted that the symbiotic relationships insects have established with several microorganisms have had a key role in their evolutionary success. Bacterial symbiosis is also prevalent in insects that are efficient disease vectors, and numerous studies have sought to decrypt the basic mechanisms of the host-symbiont relationships and develop ways to control vector borne diseases. 'Sy...

We report the discovery of the first known symbiotic star in IC10, a starburst galaxy belonging to the Local Group, at a distance of ∼750 kpc. The symbiotic star was identified during a survey of emission-line objects. It shines at V =24.62±0.04, V −RC=2.77±0.05 and RC−IC=2.39±0.02 and suffers from EB−V =0.85±0.05 reddening. The spectrum of the cool component well matches that of solar neighbor...

We have measured the rotational velocities (v sin i) of the mass donors for 36 symbiotic stars using the cross-correlation function (CCF) method. We got a meaningful CCF for 29 objects and we derived only upper limits for 7 objects (v sin i< 3.5 km s, 6 out of these 7 are symbiotic Miras). In a sub-sample of 16 S–type symbiotic stars (with known orbital periods and well measured v sin i) 15 hav...

In plants, root system architecture is determined by the activity of root apical meristems, which control the root growth rate, and by the formation of lateral roots. In legumes, an additional root lateral organ can develop: the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing nodule. We identified in Medicago truncatula ten allelic mutants showing a compact root architecture phenotype (cra2) independent of any major...

In recent years, symbiosis as a rich source of potential engineering applications and computational model has attracted more and more attentions in the adaptive complex systems and evolution computing domains. Inspired by different symbiotic coevolution forms in nature, this paper proposed a series of multi-swarm particle swarm optimizers called PS2Os, which extend the single population particl...

Microbial symbiosis is integral to plant growth and reproduction, but its contribution to global patterns of plant distribution is unknown. Legumes (Fabaceae) are a diverse and widely distributed plant family largely dependent on symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, which are acquired from soil after germination. This dependency is predicted to limit establishment in new geographic areas, o...