Tag Archives: Medicago truncatula

Hosts select symbionts for greater mutual benefit, an evolutionary experiment shows

Posted on 5 Nov, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder

Who’s in charge of a symbiotic mutualism? You might think the host organism, whose body is the venue for an exchange of nutrients or services with a microbial symbiont, is running the show, able to evict or punish symbionts that … Continue reading →

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Gene expression shows how a plant and its mutualists are better together

Posted on 19 Oct, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

No living thing is an island, and many of the encounters between living things that happen every day are not antagonistic or even indifferent, but mutually beneficial. Two such mutualisms that could be among the most important on the planet … Continue reading →

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Scanning the genome for local adaptation

Posted on 23 Apr, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

One of the most obvious and important applications of evolutionary genetics is in figuring out whether natural biological communities are going to be able to adapt to global climate change. The projected rate of climate change over then next century … Continue reading →

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