The evolution of cooperation

JL Sachs, UG Mueller, TP Wilcox… - The Quarterly review of …, 2004‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Darwin recognized that natural selection could not favor a trait in one species solely for the
benefit of another species. The modern, selfish-gene view of the world suggests that …

Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research

M Heil, D McKey - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2003‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Protective ant-plant interactions, important in both temperate and tropical
communities, are increasingly used to study a wide range of phenomena of general interest …

The evolution of plant–insect mutualisms

JL Bronstein, R Alarcón, M Geber - New Phytologist, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mutualisms (cooperative interactions between species) have had a central role in the
generation and maintenance of life on earth. Insects and plants are involved in diverse forms …

The exploitation of mutualisms

JL Bronstein - Ecology letters, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mutualisms (interspecific cooperative interactions) are ubiquitously exploited by organisms
that obtain the benefits mutualists offer, while delivering no benefits in return. The natural …

Fungal endophytes: common host plant symbionts but uncommon mutualists

SH Faeth, WF Fagan - Integrative and comparative biology, 2002‏ - academic.oup.com
Fungal endophytes are extremely common and highly diverse microorganisms that live
within plant tissues, but usually remain asymptomatic. Endophytes traditionally have been …

Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna

TM Palmer, ML Stanton, TP Young, JR Goheen… - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
Mutualisms are key components of biodiversity and ecosystem function, yet the forces
maintaining them are poorly understood. We investigated the effects of removing large …

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

TM Palmer, DF Doak, ML Stanton, JL Bronstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - pnas.org
Understanding cooperation is a central challenge in biology, because natural selection
should favor “free-loaders” that reap benefits without reciprocating. For interspecific …

Cheaters must prosper: reconciling theoretical and empirical perspectives on cheating in mutualism

EI Jones, ME Afkhami, E Akçay, JL Bronstein… - Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cheating is a focal concept in the study of mutualism, with the majority of researchers
considering cheating to be both prevalent and highly damaging. However, current …

The competition-colonization trade-off is dead; long live the competition-colonization trade-off

DW Yu, HB Wilson - The American Naturalist, 2001‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
When applied at the individual patch level, the classic competition-colonization models of
species coexistence assume that propagules of superior competitors can displace adults of …

Interacting guilds: moving beyond the pairwise perspective on mutualisms

ML Stanton - The American Naturalist, 2003‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Most textbook treatments imply, and almost all theoretical analyses assume, that mutualistic
interactions take place between a single pair of interacting partner species. A major goal of …