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Mutualistic asexual endophytes in a native grass are usually parasitic.
The American naturalist - 1 Feb 2003
Faeth Stanley H, Sullivan T J
Abstract excerpt
Asexual systemic fungi that live symbiotically within grasses are viewed as strong mutualists on the basis of theory and empirical studies of introduced agronomic grasses. Evolutionary theory predicts that microbial symbionts that lose sexuality and rely on propagules of their hosts for transmiss...
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