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Simulation of evolution implemented in the mutualistic symbioses towards enhancing their ecological efficiency, functional integrity and genotypic specificity

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  • Provorov, Nikolai A.
  • Vorobyov, Nikolai I.

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We created the mathematical model for the evolution of the Efficiency of Mutualistic Symbioses (EMS) which was estimated as the microsymbiont impacts on the host’s reproductive potential. Using the example of rhizobia–legume interaction, the relationships were studied between EMS and Functional Integrity of Symbiosis (FIS) which is represented as a measure for concordance of changes in the partners’ genotypic frequencies under the environmental fluctuations represented by the minor deviations of the systemic model parameters. The FIS indices correlate positively with EMS values suggesting an enhancement of FIS via the natural selection operating in the partners’ populations in favor of high EMS. Due to this selection, nodular habitats may be closed for colonization by the non-beneficial bacterial strains and the Genotypic Specificity of Mutualism (GSM) in partners’ interactions is enhanced: the selective advantage of host-specific vs non-host-specific mutualists is increasing. The novelty of our model is to suggest a selective background for macroevolutionary events reorganizing the structure and functions of symbiotic systems and to present its evolution as a result of shifting the equilibrium between different types of mutualists under the impacts of the symbiosis-stipulated modes of natural selection.

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  • Provorov, Nikolai A. & Vorobyov, Nikolai I., 2010. "Simulation of evolution implemented in the mutualistic symbioses towards enhancing their ecological efficiency, functional integrity and genotypic specificity," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 78(4), pages 259-269.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:thpobi:v:78:y:2010:i:4:p:259-269
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.08.005
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    1. Provorov, Nikolai A. & Vorobyov, Nikolai I., 2008. "Equilibrium between the “genuine mutualists†and “symbiotic cheaters†in the bacterial population co-evolving with plants in a facultative symbiosis," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 74(4), pages 345-355.
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