Publication Date:
2014-07-06
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409001/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409001/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hom, Erik F Y -- Murray, Andrew W -- P50 GM068763/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P50-GM068763/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jul 4;345(6192):94-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1253320.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. erik@fyhom.com amurray@mcb.harvard.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24994654" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aspergillus nidulans/genetics/physiology
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/classification/metabolism/*microbiology
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Coculture Techniques
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Genetic Engineering
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Glucose/metabolism
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Metabolic Networks and Pathways/genetics/physiology
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Neurospora crassa/genetics/physiology
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Nitrites/metabolism
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Phylogeny
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/classification/metabolism/*physiology
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Symbiosis/genetics/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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