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obligative mutualism

biology

Also known as: interdependency, obligative symbiosis

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In mutualism
and termites exhibit obligative mutualism, a strict interdependency, in which the protozoans digest the wood ingested by the termites; neither partner can survive under natural conditions without the other.
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eukaryotic cells

In community ecology: The pervasiveness of mutualism
…without the other—a situation called obligative symbiosis.
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yucca plants and moths

In lepidopteran: Food selection by the adult
moths and yucca plants is obligate in that the moth larvae feed only in yucca fruits and the latter can develop only from moth-pollinated flowers. The female yucca moth has special tentacles on the mouthparts, with which it gathers and carries balls of pollen (see community ecology: The coevolutionary process).
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