Article
[Evolution of Host-Beneficial Traits in Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria: Modeling and Construction of Systems for Interspecies Altruism].
Prikladnaia biokhimiia i mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Provorov N A, Vorohyov N I
Abstract excerpt
The literature and our own data on N2-fixing bacteria forming symbioses with plants and providing convenient models to study the evolution of interspecies (microsymbionts --> hosts) altruism are considered in the review. It is presented as a deeply reorganized intraspecies altruism implemented in the clonal population of rhizobia (bacteroids --> undifferentiated bacteria) under the control of kin selection...
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