School of Biology and Ecology

Dr. Suegene Noh, Colby College Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in social amoebas In facultative symbioses, only a fraction of hosts are associated with symbionts. Specific host and symbiont pairings may be the result of host-symbiont coevolution driven by reciprocal selection, or priority effects pertaining to which potential symbiont became […]