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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fisher RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5500886 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20170704
Organisms across the tree of life form symbiotic partnerships with microbes for metabolism, protection and resources. While some hosts evolve extreme dependence on their symbionts, others maintain facultative associations. Explaining this variation is fundamental to understanding when symbiosis can lead to new higher-level individuals, such as during the evolution of the eukaryotic cell. Here we perform phylogenetic comparative analyses on 106 unique host-bacterial symbioses to test for correlat ...[more]