What is symbiosis?
Symbiosis in the natural world is described as the close interactions between different species or the relationship of species living together (Oulhen et al. 2016). It can be found all throughout the living world and wherever there is life there is probably at least one group of symbiotic species. It is usually why bees pollinate plants, parasites invade animals, how plants get nutrients from the soil and even possibly an important driving factor for the evolution of species and life as we know it today – but more on that in the later blogs (Bronstein et al. 2006)(Gilbert 2019)(Douglas 2014)(Aanen & Eggleton 2017)(Lopez-Garcia et al. 2017). Why is it important? Symbiotic relationships are often so heavily relied upon that an organism cannot grow as it normally would without it’s symbiotic partners (Gilbert et al 2015). This not only affects the species holding the relationship but can also be essential elements of entire ecosystems (Heide et al. 2012). Understandin...