Ametrano C.G., Lumbsch H.T., Di Stefano I., Sangvichien E., Muggia L. & Grewe F.
(2022):
Should we hail the Red King? Evolutionary consequences of a mutualistic lifestyle in genomes of lichenized ascomycetes,
Ecology and Evolution,
12: e8471 [16 p.]
The Red Queen dynamic is often brought into play for antagonistic relationships.
However, the coevolutionary effects of mutualistic interactions, which predict slower
evolution for interacting organisms (Red King), have been investigated to a lesser extent. Lichens are a stable, mutualistic relationship of fungi and cyanobacteria and/
or algae, which originated several times independently during the evolution of fungi.
Therefore, they represent a suitable system to investigate the coevolutionary …
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