symbiosis

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Examine commensalism among fish species such as shrimp, the neon goby, and moray eels

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Also Known As	symbiont

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Examine commensalism among fish species such as shrimp, the neon goby, and moray eels

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endosymbiosis lichen interspecific association parasitism antagonism mutualism commensalism amensalism syntrophism

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Lynn Margulis

American biologist