Process rather than pattern: finding pine needles in the coevolutionary haystack.
Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. DRNash@bio.ku.dk
The geographic mosaic theory is fast becoming a unifying framework for coevolutionary studies. A recent experimental study of interactions between pines and mycorrhizal fungi in BMC Biology is the first to rigorously test geographical selection mosaics, one of the cornerstones of the theory.
PMID: 18510785 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC2447534