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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 205, Issue 4, Pages 1437-1442Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13113
Keywords
biological market; cheating; discrimination; economics; partner choice
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- Dutch Science Foundation (NWO)
- ERC [335542]
- European Research Council (ERC) [335542] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Partner selection in the mycorrhizal symbiosis is thought to be a key factor stabilising the mutualism. Both plant hosts and mycorrhizal fungi have been shown to preferentially allocate resources to higher quality partners. This can help maintain underground cooperation, although it is likely that different plant species vary in the spatial precision with which they can select partners. Partner selection in the mycorrhizal symbiosis is presumably context-dependent and can be mediated by factors like (relative) resource abundance and resource fluctuations, competition among mycorrhizas, arrival order and cultivation history. Such factors complicate our current understanding of the importance of partner selection and its effectiveness in stimulating mutualistic cooperation.
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