An emerging view of coevolution in the legume-rhizobium mutualism.

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Mutualisms are often framed as 'delicately balanced antagonisms' (Bronstein, 1994), with the net fitness benefits to both partners potentially masking underlying conflicts of interest. How commonly symbionts evolve to 'cheat' their hosts and hosts evolve to 'sanction' or 'control' uncooperative symbionts is the subject of debate, especially in legume-rhizobium interactions (Frederickson, 2013; Kiers et al.,...

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