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SUBMITTER: Mondo SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705715 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mondo Stephen J SJ Lastovetsky Olga A OA Gaspar Maria L ML Schwardt Nicole H NH Barber Colin C CC Riley Robert R Sun Hui H Grigoriev Igor V IV Pawlowska Teresa E TE
Nature communications 20171129 1
Many heritable mutualisms, in which beneficial symbionts are transmitted vertically between host generations, originate as antagonisms with parasite dispersal constrained by the host. Only after the parasite gains control over its transmission is the symbiosis expected to transition from antagonism to mutualism. Here, we explore this prediction in the mutualism between the fungus Rhizopus microsporus (Rm, Mucoromycotina) and a beta-proteobacterium Burkholderia, which controls host asexual reprod ...[more]