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The origin of synergistic symbiosis.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Oct 1995
Frank S A
Abstract excerpt
A dominant theme in the history of life has been the evolutionary innovations of cooperative symbioses: the first genomes near the origin of life, integrated prokaryotic cells, the complex symbiotic communities that evolved into modern eukaryotic cells, lichens, mycorrhizae, and so on. In this paper, a model of cooperative symbiosis that shows a threshold condition for the evolution of cooperation is analyzed....
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