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The Central Symbiosis of Molecular Biology: Molecules in Mutualism
Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2017 As illustrated by the mitochondrion and the eukaryotic cell, little in biology makes sense except in light of mutualism. Mutualisms are persistent, intimate, and reciprocal exchanges; an organism proficient in obtaining certain benefits confers those on a partner, which reciprocates by conferring different benefits. Mutualisms (i) increase fitness, (ii)
Lanier, Kathryn A +2 more
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Synthetic Mutualism and the Intervention Dilemma
Life, 2019 Ecosystems are complex networks of interacting individuals co-evolving with their environment. As such, changes to an interaction can influence the whole ecosystem. However, to predict the outcome of these changes, considerable understanding of processes
Jai A. Denton, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
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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 D. Bever
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The biology and chemistry of a mutualism between a soil bacterium and a mycorrhizal fungus
Current BiologyArbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (e.g., Rhizophagus species) recruit specific bacterial species in their hyphosphere. However, the chemical interplay and the mutual benefit of this intricate partnership have not been investigated yet, especially as it involves bacteria known as strong producers of antifungal compounds such as Bacillus velezensis. Here,
Anckaert, Adrien +9 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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Wolbachia: endosymbiont of onchocercid nematodes and their vectors
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Wolbachia is an obligate intracellular maternally transmitted, gram-negative bacterium which forms a spectrum of endosymbiotic relationships from parasitism to obligatory mutualism in a wide range of arthropods and onchocercid nematodes ...
Ranju Ravindran Santhakumari Manoj +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2012 Although mutualism between ants and honeydew-producing hemipterans has been extensively recognized in ecosystem biology, however few attempts to test the hypothesis that mutualism between two alien species leads to the facilitation of the invasion ...
Aiming Zhou +4 more
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Joint evolution of kin recognition and cooperation in spatially structured rhizobium populations.
PLoS ONE, 2014 In the face of costs, cooperative interactions maintained over evolutionary time present a central question in biology. What forces maintain this cooperation? Two potential ways to explain this problem are spatially structured environments (kin selection)
Peter C Zee, James D Bever
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Endolichenic fungi: the lesser known fungal associates of lichens
Mycology, 2017 Lichens are the result of a stable mutualism between a fungal and a photosynthesising partner (alga or cyanobacterium). In addition to the fungal partner in this mutualism, lichens are associated with endolichenic fungi which reside inside their thalli ...
Trichur S. Suryanarayanan +1 more
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Has pollination mode shaped the evolution of ficus pollen? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: The extent to which co-evolutionary processes shape morphological traits is one of the most fascinating topics in evolutionary biology.
Gang Wang +4 more
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