Fitness costs and benefits vary for two facultative Burkholderia symbionts of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum
Abstract Hosts and their associated microbes can enter into different relationships, which can range from mutualism, where both partners benefit, to exploitation, where one partner benefits at the expense of the other. Many host–microbe relationships have been presumed to be mutualistic, but frequen...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019-09-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5529 |