Coevolutionary constraints? The environment alters tripartite interaction traits in a legume.

Abstract excerpt

Third party species, which interact with one or both partners of a pairwise species interaction, can shift the ecological costs and the evolutionary trajectory of the focal interaction. Shared genes that mediate a host's interactions with multiple partners have the potential to generate evolutionary constraints, making multi-player interactions critical to our understanding of the evolution of key interaction...

Topics

• Animals
• Biomass
• Evolution, Molecular
• Genetic Variation
• Herbivory
• Medicago truncatula
• Models, Genetic
• Multivariate Analysis
• Phenotype
• Plant Shoots
• Rhizobium
• Root Nodules, Plant