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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Main Authors: Justine R. Garcia, Tyler J. Larsen, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-09-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5529