Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Misconceptions on the application of biological market theory to the mycorrhizal symbiosis

  • Correspondence
  • Published:

From Nature Plants

View current issue Submit your manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Bever, J. D., Richardson, S. C., Lawrence, B. M., Holmes, J. & Watson, M. Ecol. Lett. 12, 13–21 (2009).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Kiers, E. T. et al. Science 333, 880–882 (2011).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Fellbaum, C. R. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 2666–2671 (2012).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Fellbaum, C. R. et al. New Phytol. 203, 646–656 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Walder, F. & van der Heijden, M. G. A. Nature Plants 1, 15159 (2015).

  6. Noë, R. & Hammerstein, P. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 35, 1–11 (1994).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Wyatt, G. A. K., Kiers, E. T., Gardner, A. & West, S. A. Evolution 68, 2603–2618 (2014).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Bever, J. D. New Phytol. 205, 1503–1514 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Steidinger, B. S. & Bever, J. D. Am. Nat. 183, 762–70 (2014).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Werner, G. D. A. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, 1237–1244 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Werner, G. D. A. & Kiers, E. T. New Phytol. 205, 1437–1442 (2015).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Johnson, N. C. New Phytol. 185, 631–47 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Song, Z. & Feldman, M. W. Theor. Popul. Biol. 88, 20–30 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Foster, K. R. & Kokko, H. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 273, 2233–2239 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Hoeksema, J. D. et al. Ecol. Lett. 13, 394–407 (2010).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Frank, S. A. J. Evol. Biol. 23, 1245–1250 (2010).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. West, S. A., Griffin, A. S. & Gardner, A. Curr. Biol. 17, R661–R672 (2007).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Ghoul, M., Griffin, A. S. & West, S. A. Evolution 68, 318–331 (2014).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Gutjahr C. & Parniske M. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 29, 593–617 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Kummel, M. & Salant, S. W. Ecology 87, 892–902 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Argüello, A. et al. Ecol. Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12601 (2016).

  22. Verbruggen, E. et al. Am. Nat. 179, E133–E146 (2012).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Steidinger, B. S. & Bever, J. D. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 283, 20152428 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Grman, E. Ecology 93, 711–718 (2012).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Zheng, C., Ji, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, F. & Bever, J. D. New Phytol. 205, 361–368 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  26. Schwartz, M. W. & Hoeksema, J. D. Ecology 79, 1029–1038 (1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank M. Rillig (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) for useful discussion. Financial support was provided by European Research Council ERC Grant Agreement 335542 (E.T.K.), NSF-IOS award 10513997 (H.B) and Natural Environment Research Council NE/K009524/1 (A.G.).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Ecological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands

    E. Toby Kiers & Gijsbert D. A. Werner

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK

    Stuart A. West & Gregory A. K. Wyatt

  3. School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Dyers Brae, St Andrews, KY16 9TH, UK

    Andy Gardner

  4. Biology and Microbiology Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, 57007, South Dakota, USA

    Heike Bücking

Authors
  1. E. Toby Kiers
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Stuart A. West
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Gregory A. K. Wyatt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Andy Gardner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Heike Bücking
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Gijsbert D. A. Werner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to E. Toby Kiers.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Kiers, E., West, S., Wyatt, G. et al. Misconceptions on the application of biological market theory to the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants 2, 16063 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.63

Download citation

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.63

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation