There are many ways to be a mutualist: Endophytic fungus reduces plant survival but increases population growth

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 565-574

  Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a   Miller, Tom E X ^a   Ziegler, Shaun M ^b   Craven, Kelly D ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cinna arundinacea; Demography; Fungal endophyte; Herbivory; Mutualism; Neotyphodium schardlii; Reproductive parasite; Symbiosis; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOPHYTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS; GRASS; HERBIVORY; HERITABILITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; ENDOPHYTE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOTYPHODIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION GROWTH; SYMBIOSIS;

ENDOPHYTES; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; POPULATION GROWTH; SYMBIOSIS;

CINNA ARUNDINACEA; FUNGI; NEOTYPHODIUM;

EID: 84860250539     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0689.1     Document Type: Article

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