Name: Convergence in Multispecies Interactions
Keywords: community ecology, convergent evolution, microbe, mutualism, symbiosis

Convergence in Multispecies Interactions

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Bittleston, Leonora Sophia; Pierce, Naomi E.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Pringle, Anne;

(2016)

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Related identifiers: doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.006., doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.006
Subject: community ecology | convergent evolution | microbe | mutualism | symbiosis

The concepts of convergent evolution and community convergence highlight how selective pressures can shape unrelated organisms or communities in similar ways. We propose a related concept, convergent interactions, to describe the independent evolution of multispecies in... View more

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