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All Strategies (1322)
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Get, store, or distribute resources (403)
Maintain community (303)
Maintain physical integrity (939)
Make (166)
Modify (343)
Move or stay put (74)
Process information (331)
- Manage structural forces
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- Protect from abiotic factors
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Animals (144)
Fungi (19)
Microbes (49)
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- Regulate physiological processes
- Biofilm-inhibiting chemical protects surfaces: red alga
- Saliva protects from infection: cattle calf
- Protein prevents bacterial adherence: Lactobacillus fermentum
- Biofilms protect bacteria: gram negative bacteria
- Biofilm inhibition protects surfaces: peas
- Biofilm inhibition protects surfaces: freshwater algae
- Secretions are antibacterial: greenbottle fly
- Larvae prevent mold growth: Passalid beetle
- Secretions are antibacterial, antifungal: leaf-cutter ants
- Excretions provide antimicrobial protection: olive trees
- Excretions provide antimicrobial protection: biscuitroot
- Lichen metabolite has antimicrobial activity: lichens
- Case protects during years at sea: Polynesian box fruit
- Milk protects against microbes: tammar wallaby
- Self-medicating with plants: chimpanzees
- Self-medicating cures infections, stops pain: baboons
- Self-medicating to prevent malaria: house sparrows
- Mucins trap pathogens: animals
- Constructing bubble nests: foam-nesting frog
- Secretions repel insects, bacteria: giraffe
- Social system protects from disease: dampwood termites
- Chemical protects from disease: grapes
- Rind resists rotting: flowering plants
- Preening waterproofs feathers: birds
- Secretion waterproofs nest: plasterer bee
- Peptide defensin fights pathogens: animals
- Photoperiod affects immune response: Siberian hamster
- Mucus has antibacterial properties: bony fish
- Stabilized bromine protects from bacteria: kelp
- Coating removes unwanted organisms: trees
- Colonial living leads to long-term survival: fungi
- Skin resists microorganisms: pilot whale
- Sweat protects skin: hippopotamus
- Polypeptide inhibits microbial growth: California sea hare
- Digestive solution removes excess algae: giant clam
- Surviving changing conditions: ecosystems
- Skin inhibits microbes: shark
- Plants enhance health: golden bee
- Desiccation eludes enemies: bdelloid rotifers
- Larvae protected from pathogens: beewolf digger wasps
- Diet diversity affects health: honeybees
- Nests are antimicrobial: foam-nesting frogs
- Tyrisonase enzymes aid crosslinking: organisms
- Antimicrobial peptides destroy bacteria: American dog tick
