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Genetic Underpinnings Of Novel Trait Development In A Euwallacea-Fusarium Mutualism, Elaina J. Spahr
Genetic Underpinnings Of Novel Trait Development In A Euwallacea-Fusarium Mutualism, Elaina J. Spahr
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology seeks to answer fundamental questions about the mechanisms underlying the evolution and innovation towards increasing structural complexity within the body plan. The ambrosia symbiosis, a polyphyletic group of xylem-feeding beetles, provides a wealth of diversity in novel pouch-like structures called mycangia. This diversity could serve as a rich model for understanding how mutualisms may prompt structural innovation and diversification in a host organism. The ambrosia symbiosis has become a fast-growing research subject in entomology and forest pathology but has yet to experience the same attention under the lens of evolutionary developmental genetics.
Development of mycangia was examined …