Microbial Interactions

associates with other organisnm
1. Ectosymbiosis
  1. microorganism remains outside the other organism
2. Endosymbiosis
  1. microorganism is found within the other organism
3. Ecto/endosymbiosis
  1. microorganism lives both on the inside and the outside of the other organism
physical associations
1. intermitten
2. cyclic
3. permanent
mutualism
1. obligatory association
  1. provides reciprocal benefit to both partner
protocooperation
1. mutually beneficial relationship : not obligatory
commensalism
1. microbes benefit, but host neither harm nor helped
2. microbes shares same food with host
predation
1. attacks prey
2. microbes eg. : cause lysis
  1. Bdellovibrio
  2. Vampirococcus
  3. Daptobacter
3. aquatic : need cilliates
parasitism
1. one organisms (parasites) benefits from another (host)
ammensalism
1. organism releases a specific compound that harms another organisms
competition
1. different organisms compete the same resources
2. competitive exclusion principle : 2 population overlap, 1 is excluded

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	Created by Harisson Kueh over 8 years ago