Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole
Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole
Gordon M. Bennett,N. Moran
2015 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421388112
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 433 Citations
TLDR
Genes underlying the host–symbiont interface are predicted to follow a coevolutionary arms race, as observed for genes governing host–pathogen interactions, which is predicted to accelerate host speciation rates by generating genetic incompatibilities.
