Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences) Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.

Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities
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Want to read the #Review itself? It's #FreeAccess, so why not add it to your reading list! 📖

#Ant #behaviour as mediator of extrafloral nectary-based #mutualisms: Interactions with #nectar chemistry & environmental conditions
doi.org/10.1111/een.70065

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New #FreeAccess #Review in #RESEcolEnt

#Ant behaviour as mediator of extrafloral nectary-based #mutualisms: Interactions with #nectar chemistry & environmental conditions
doi.org/10.1111/een.70065

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@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Climate change breakups - Nature Ecology & Evolution As with plants and animals, microorganisms are affected by climate change. This could destabilize mutualisms that are key to species’ survival and ecosystem resilience.

What will #climatechange do to mutual ecological relationships? The Editor of Nature introduces the authors who may help explain 🌍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#EcologicalRelationships #Mutualisms #symbiotic #ecosystems #Editorial

Figure 3 Delavaux (2026): Major traits hypothesized to impact the mutualist filter. A framework synthesizing mutualism traits hypothesized to impact the strength of the mutualist filter. Plant host traits include specificity, dependency, and multiple mutualists; mutualist traits include dispersal limitation, specificity, and dependency. Finally, species introductions may mediate the filter, with differing effects on the mainland relative to islands. An example within the mycorrhizal symbiosis contrasting arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EM) mutualisms is given in the dark gray boxes. Although EM mutualisms are relatively stronger in three out of five traits predicted to increase the mutualist filter, research shows that AM plant species experience a stronger filter, likely due to the overriding effect of dispersal limitation.

New publication: On the role of #mutualisms in #plant #biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion, by @camilledelavaux.bsky.social.
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ICB Issue 4 -
"Some of the most highly specialized interactions are brood-pollination #mutualisms, wherein plants trade food and shelter for #pollination services, often at the cost of some offspring..."

Gwen M Bode, et al

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#pollinators #botany #plants #botanist

This is so cool! #mutualisms #biodiversity

Pesticide drift and exposure can alter plant mutualisms in ways both direct and indirect.

Out of site, out of mind? Considering #pesticide drift and plant #mutualisms

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👆 A #Commentary by Charlie C. Nicholson on this article by Baucom et al. 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Different spatial states of cooperative symbionts leading to different host–symbiont interactions.

【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within #Mutualisms

#AsymmetricInteraction | #HostSanction | #EvolutionaryRate | #Cheater

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Celebrating Excellence: Dr. Laurich Awarded the Stearns Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research — Centre for Ecosystem Management The Stearns Graduate Student Prize, awarded annually by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB), honours exceptional research by graduate s...

🎉 Huge congrats to our @jasonlaurich.bsky.social for his outstanding #graduate research project on how diverse and abundant #mutualisms shape #plant life! 🌱 His project was so good, in fact, that it won him the prestigious Stearns Graduate Student Prize 🌟 Way to go, Dr. Laurich! tinyurl.com/54a2n9ma

#preprint
#Mutualisms within light microhabitats drive #sensory convergence in a mimetic #butterfly community

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08....

Exciting findings from @MarlenyGarciaL1 @HassanSalem at #MaxPlanckInstitute for Biology reveal how #adaptation & #symbiosis evolved in the fascinating insect-microbe world https://twtr.to/MfjDe #Mutualisms #DigestiveEnzyme #Evolution

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Frugivorous #bats disperse seeds of 100s of plant spp. & have adaptations to find fruit. Evolutionary theory predicts #mutualisms can lead to evolution of fruit traits matching frugivores’ attributes. So, can 🦇 drive the #evolution of 🍈 traits & vice versa?

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