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SUBMITTER: Clerissi C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5995829 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180611 1
The emergence of symbiotic interactions has been studied using population genomics in nature and experimental evolution in the laboratory, but the parallels between these processes remain unknown. Here we compare the emergence of rhizobia after the horizontal transfer of a symbiotic plasmid in natural populations of Cupriavidus taiwanensis, over 10 MY ago, with the experimental evolution of symbiotic Ralstonia solanacearum for a few hundred generations. In spite of major differences in terms of ...[more]