Partner choice and fidelity stabilize coevolution in a Cretaceous-age defensive symbiosis

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

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6359-6364

  Kaltenpoth, Martin ^a,b   Roeser Mueller, Kerstin ^b   Koehler, Sabrina ^a   Peterson, Ashley ^c,d   Nechitaylo, Taras Y ^a   Stubblefield, J William ^e   Herzner, Gudrun ^b   Seger, Jon ^d   Strohm, Erhard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e Fresh Pond Research Institute Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Cospeciation; Crabronidae; Hymenoptera; Mutualism stability; Protective symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE KINASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; ELONGATION FACTOR G; RNA 16S; RNA 28S;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BEE; COCOON; COEVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FIDELITY; GENE SEQUENCE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARTNER CHOICE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

COSPECIATION; CRABRONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MUTUALISM STABILITY; PROTECTIVE SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS; WASPS;

EID: 84899659691     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400457111     Document Type: Article

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