Article
Dynamic genomic architecture of mutualistic cooperation in a wild population of Mesorhizobium.
The ISME journal - 1 Feb 2019
Porter Stephanie S, Faber-Hammond Joshua, Montoya Angeliqua P, Friesen Maren L, Sackos Cynthia
Abstract excerpt
Research on mutualism seeks to explain how cooperation can be maintained when uncooperative mutants co-occur with cooperative kin. Gains and losses of the gene modules required for cooperation punctuate symbiont phylogenies and drive lifestyle transitions between cooperative symbionts and uncooperative free-living lineages over evolutionary time. Yet whether uncooperative symbionts commonly evolve from within...
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