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Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Feb 2010
Hillesland Kristina L, Stahl David A
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Mutualistic interactions are taxonomically and functionally diverse. Despite their ubiquity, however, the basic ecological and evolutionary processes underlying their origin and maintenance are poorly understood. A major reason for this is the lack of an experimentally tractable model system. We examine the evolution of an experimentally imposed obligate mutualism between sulfate-reducing and methanogenic...
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