Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts

• Main Authors: Reynolds, D., Liu, M., Stark, M., Webster, N. S., Thomas, T., Fan, Lu, Kjelleberg, Staffan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98136; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12348
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Microorganisms often form symbiotic relationships with eukaryotes, and the complexity of these relationships can range from those with one single dominant symbiont to associations with hundreds of symbiont species. Microbial symbionts occupying equivalent niches in different eukaryotic hosts may sha...