Bacterial–Fungal Interactions: Mutualism, Antagonism, and Competition [PDF]
LifeThe interaction between bacteria and fungi is one of the key interactions of microbial ecology, including mutualism, antagonism, and competition, which profoundly affects the balance and functions of animal microbial ecosystems.
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Lack of fidelity revealed in an insect–fungal mutualism after invasion [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 Symbiont fidelity is an important mechanism in the evolution and stability of mutualisms. Strict fidelity has been assumed for the obligate mutualism between Sirex woodwasps and their mutualistic Amylostereum fungi.
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Plant preferential allocation and fungal reward decline with soil phosphorus: implications for mycorrhizal mutualism [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2016 Explaining the persistence of mutualism remains a challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology. The evolutionary stability of arbuscular mycorrhiza, a most widespread and ancient mutualistic association, is particularly intriguing because plants lack ...
Baoming Ji, James David Bever
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Editorial: Fungal-plant interactions in a changing environment: from mutualism to pathogenesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Fungal BiologySubhadeep Das +3 more
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Caterpillars and fungal pathogens: two co-occurring parasites of an ant-plant mutualism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In mutualisms, each interacting species obtains resources from its partner that it would obtain less efficiently if alone, and so derives a net fitness benefit.
Olivier Roux +3 more
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Carrying the seeds of your crop: fungal genetic networks activated during colonization of the ambrosia beetle symbiotic organ [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground Myco-cultivation by ambrosia beetles involves unique symbiotic partnerships with select fungi. These beetles grow and tend their fungal gardens as food for larvae and adults.
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Fungus-mediated plant-pollinator mutualism in Monoon laui (Annonaceae): functional differentiation of stigmatic exudate and petal nectar [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Floral nectar typically functions as a pollinator reward in mutualistic flower-pollinator interactions, with this mutualism sometimes strengthened when plants provide the pollinators with brood sites and larval food as rewards.
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Genetic tools for transformation of Xyleborus ambrosia beetle fungal symbionts [PDF]
Fungal Biology and BiotechnologyBackground Ambrosia beetles rely on obligate fungal partners for survival, and these associations are emerging as model systems for examining the development and evolution of fungal-animal mutualism.
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Climate Change Influences Basidiome Emergence of Leaf-Cutting Ant Cultivars
Journal of Fungi, 2021 Maintaining symbiosis homeostasis is essential for mutualistic partners. Leaf-cutting ants evolved a long-term symbiotic mutualism with fungal cultivars for nourishment while using vertical asexual transmission across generations.
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate change and other anthropogenic activities have the potential to alter the dynamics of resource exchange in the mutualistic symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal fungi, potentially altering its stability.
André G. Duarte, Hafiz Maherali
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