Evolution of passwords for cost-free, honest signalling between symbionts and hosts
Marco Archetti, J. Benjamin Miller, Douglas W. Yu
The paper shows that cost-free, honest signals can evolve in mutualistic symbioses under soft selection, using a population-genetics model to explain how symbionts and hosts can communicate reliably without costly signals.
bioRxiv · Jul 25, 2016 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology