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Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Oct 2014
Hillesland Kristina L, Lim Sujung, Flowers Jason J, Turkarslan Serdar, Pinel Nicolas, Zane Grant M, Elliott Nicholas, Qin Yujia, Wu Liyou, Baliga Nitin S, Zhou Jizhong, Wall Judy D, Stahl David A
Abstract excerpt
Many species have evolved to function as specialized mutualists, often to the detriment of their ability to survive independently. However, there are few, if any, well-controlled observations of the evolutionary processes underlying the genesis of new mutualisms. Here, we show that within the first 1,000 generations of initiating independent syntrophic interactions between a sulfate reducer (Desulfovibrio...
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