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PLoS Computational Biology, 2012 There is continuing interest in understanding factors that facilitate the evolution and stability of cooperation within and between species. Such interactions will often involve plasticity in investment behavior, in response to the interacting partner's ...
Gergely Boza +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 By‐product mutualisms are ubiquitous yet seldom considered in models of mutualism. Most models represent conditional mutualisms that shift between mutualism and antagonism in response to shifts in costs and benefits resulting from changes in ...
Diana L. Six, Peter H. W. Biedermann
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Complex Dynamics in a Minimal Model of Protection-Based Mutualism
Axioms, 2020 This paper presents the first five variable model of mutualism motivated by the interaction between ants and homopterans. In this mutualism, homopterans benefit both directly through increased feeding rates and indirectly through predator protection ...
Samuel Swire +3 more
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First Report on the Acrobat Ant Crematogaster scutellaris Storing Live Aphids in Its Oak-Gall Nests
Insects, 2021 This study provides new data about the role of ants in mutualistic interactions with aphids mediated by galls. We focused our investigation on galls induced by the cynipid Andricus kollari by conducting a survey and a subsequent experiment in an Italian ...
Daniele Giannetti +6 more
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Definition of mutualism in biology
, 2021 Mutualism, or interspecific cooperation, is the way in which organisms of different species exist in a relationship where each benefits from the activity of the other.
Erzsebet Frey
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Despite the worldwide studies on urban agglomeration (UA), the effects of intra-UA interaction patterns have not been thoroughly elucidated to date.
Yasi Tian
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The Evolutionary Ecology of Mutualism [PDF]
, 2012 Mutualism, cooperation between different species, is wide-spread in nature. From bees pollinating plants to bacteria aiding digestion in the human gut: mutualism is essential for life on earth. But how does mutualism evolve?
Ivens, A.B.F.
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, 2023 We report here a second example of double mutualism between lizards Tropidurus cocorobensis Rodrigues, 1987 and Melocactus violaceus subsp. margaritaceus NP Taylor.
Alexsandro Bezerra-Silva (14494193)
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Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2017 Many models of mutualism have been proposed and studied individually. In this paper, we develop a general class of models of facultative mutualism that covers many of such published models. Using mild assumptions on the growth and self-limiting functions,
D. Maxin +3 more
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Impact of spatial distribution on the development of mutualism in microbes
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 The evolution of mutualism is one of the long-standing puzzles in evolutionary biology. Why would an individual contribute to the group at the expense of its own fitness?
Ákos T. eKovács
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