ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2014
Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism.
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- Plants, fungi, and antifungals: A little less talk, a little more action.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
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- Engineering Microbial Consortia as Living Materials: Advances and Prospectives.ACS synthetic biology · 2024Review
- A mutualistic bacterium rescues a green alga from an antagonist.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Inter-kingdom communication and the sympoietic way of life.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
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- Two-tiered mutualism improves survival and competitiveness of cross-feeding soil bacteria.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Syntrophic Interactions Ameliorate Arsenic Inhibition of Solvent-DechlorinatingEnvironmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Characterization of a novel polyextremotolerant fungus, Exophiala viscosa, with insights into its melanin regulation and ecological niche.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Evolutionary repeatability of emergent properties of ecological communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Mutualistic symbioses shape the evolution of species and ecosystems and catalyze the emergence of biological complexity, yet how such symbioses first form is unclear. We show that an obligate mutualism between the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii--two model eukaryotes with very different life histories--can arise spontaneously in an environment requiring reciprocal carbon and nitrogen exchange. This capacity for mutualism is phylogenetically broad, extending to other Chlamydomonas and fungal species. Furthermore, we witnessed the spontaneous association of Chlamydomonas algal cells physically interacting with filamentous fungi. These observations demonstrate that under specific conditions, environmental change induces free-living species to become obligate mutualists and establishes a set of experimentally tractable, phylogenetically related, synthetic systems for studying the evolution of symbiosis.
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