The biological reality of host sanctions and partner fidelity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kiers, E Toby ^a   Denison, R Ford ^b   Kawakita, Atsushi ^c   Herre, Edward Allen ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOST; HOST SANCTION; LEGUME; LETTER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PARTNER FIDELITY FEEDBACK; PLANT; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 79551646524     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014546108     Document Type: Letter

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