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Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms

Although understanding mutualism stability has advanced over the last few decades, two fundamental problems still remain in explaining how mutualisms maintain stable. (i) How does resolve conflict between mutualists over resources? (ii) In the presence of less cooperative and/or uncooperative symbio...

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Main Authors:	Wang, Rui-Wu, Shi, An-Na, Zhang, Xiao-Wei, Liu, Min, Jander, K. Charlotte, Dunn, Derek W.
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Published:	Oxford University Press 2024
Subjects:	S Agriculture (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/45708/ https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad042
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spelling	my.um.eprints.457082024-11-08T08:45:17Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/45708/ Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms Wang, Rui-Wu Shi, An-Na Zhang, Xiao-Wei Liu, Min Jander, K. Charlotte Dunn, Derek W. S Agriculture (General) Although understanding mutualism stability has advanced over the last few decades, two fundamental problems still remain in explaining how mutualisms maintain stable. (i) How does resolve conflict between mutualists over resources? (ii) In the presence of less cooperative and/or uncooperative symbionts, how does prevent symbiont populations from becoming dominated by uncooperative individuals? Many past explanations of mutualism stability have assumed that interactions between mutualists are symmetrical. However, in most mutualisms, interactions between hosts and symbionts show varying degrees of asymmetry at different levels. Here, we review three major types of asymmetric interactions within obligate mutualisms: (i) asymmetric payoffs, which is also defined as individual power differences, (ii) asymmetric potential rates of evolutionary change, and (iii) asymmetric information states between hosts and symbionts. We suggest that these asymmetries between mutualists help explain why cooperation and conflict are inherent in the evolution of mutualisms, and why both hosts and symbionts present diversified phenotypes while cooperation predominates. Oxford University Press 2024-02 Article PeerReviewed Wang, Rui-Wu and Shi, An-Na and Zhang, Xiao-Wei and Liu, Min and Jander, K. Charlotte and Dunn, Derek W. (2024) Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms. Journal of Plant Ecology, 17 (1). rtad042. ISSN 1752-9921, DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad042 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad042>. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad042 10.1093/jpe/rtad042
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spellingShingle	S Agriculture (General) Wang, Rui-Wu Shi, An-Na Zhang, Xiao-Wei Liu, Min Jander, K. Charlotte Dunn, Derek W. Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
description	Although understanding mutualism stability has advanced over the last few decades, two fundamental problems still remain in explaining how mutualisms maintain stable. (i) How does resolve conflict between mutualists over resources? (ii) In the presence of less cooperative and/or uncooperative symbionts, how does prevent symbiont populations from becoming dominated by uncooperative individuals? Many past explanations of mutualism stability have assumed that interactions between mutualists are symmetrical. However, in most mutualisms, interactions between hosts and symbionts show varying degrees of asymmetry at different levels. Here, we review three major types of asymmetric interactions within obligate mutualisms: (i) asymmetric payoffs, which is also defined as individual power differences, (ii) asymmetric potential rates of evolutionary change, and (iii) asymmetric information states between hosts and symbionts. We suggest that these asymmetries between mutualists help explain why cooperation and conflict are inherent in the evolution of mutualisms, and why both hosts and symbionts present diversified phenotypes while cooperation predominates.
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author	Wang, Rui-Wu Shi, An-Na Zhang, Xiao-Wei Liu, Min Jander, K. Charlotte Dunn, Derek W.
author_facet	Wang, Rui-Wu Shi, An-Na Zhang, Xiao-Wei Liu, Min Jander, K. Charlotte Dunn, Derek W.
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title	Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
title_short	Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
title_full	Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
title_fullStr	Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
title_full_unstemmed	Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
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publisher	Oxford University Press
publishDate	2024
url	http://eprints.um.edu.my/45708/ https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad042
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