NICHE EXPANSION VIA SYMBIONTS. “On macroevolutionary time scales, symbiont acquisition has often enabled evolutionary diversification and ecological expansion. By acquiring maternally transmitted bacterial symbionts, many insect lineages have succeeded in unlocking new ecological niches, particularly ones that present nutritionally unbalanced diets.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022