Species Richness and Redundancy Maintain Ecological Mutualisms (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Species Richness and Redundancy Maintain Ecological Mutualisms (1 of 3)

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Simple yeast mutualist communities had lower survival (hazy liquid) rate from exploitation than complex communities. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 16 Oct., 2020, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.C. Vidal at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Species richness and redundancy promote persistence of exploited mutualisms in yeast."

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Kari Segraves

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