A biological market analysis of the plant-mycorrhizal symbiosis

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2603-2618

  Wyatt, Gregory A K ^a   Toby Kiers, E ^b   Gardner, Andy ^c   West, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bargaining power; Cournot competition; Darwinian agriculture; Mutualism; Partner choice; Ricardian economics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; COEVOLUTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNGUS; MUTUALISM; NATURAL SELECTION;

FUNGUS; GENETIC SELECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FUNGI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84907968785     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12466     Document Type: Article

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