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SUBMITTER: Rafaluk-Mohr C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6121859 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Rafaluk-Mohr Charlotte C Ashby Ben B Dahan Dylan A DA King Kayla C KC
Evolution letters 20180528 3
Species interactions can shift along the parasitism-mutualism continuum. However, the consequences of these transitions for coevolutionary interactions remain unclear. We experimentally coevolved a novel species interaction between <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> hosts and a mildly parasitic bacterium, <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>, with host-protective properties against virulent <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>. Coinfections drove the evolutionary transition of the <i>C. elegans-E. faecalis</i> relat ...[more]