| In this case, the interaction between humans and their natural habitat is a mutualistic relationship, i.e., one of reciprocal benefits. |
| Furthermore, it is likely that most herbivorous dinosaurs employed a mutualistic gut microbiota. |
| The Republic recognises the social function of co-operation of a mutualistic, non-speculative nature. |
| Although fungi are thought of as saprotrophic or parasitic, more than one third of the known fungi are involved in mutualistic symbioses. |
| Certain species, for example, grow in a mutualistic relationship with fungi, forming composite organisms known as lichens. |
| A mutualistic symbiotic relationship occurs when both the host and symbiont receive some benefit from the association and neither is harmed. |
