… be parasitic, such as in bacterial pathogens, or mutualistic, as in beneficial microbiomes. …
the mode of symbiont transmission from host to host. Here we describe how bacterial symbionts …

… In this Review, we discuss the evolutionary transitions of host–microorganism symbioses
along the parasite–mutualist continuum, the mechanisms underlying evolutionary changes, the …

… scales in shaping symbiosis outcomes. We suggest that the continuum of symbiosis approach
is … This is because the continuum paradigm recognizes the contribution of ecological and …

… that there is a continuum from commensalism to mutualism to … , mutualism, and
pathogenesis/parasitism as a continuum … interactions made up of a microbial partner and a …

… Second, by using DNA sequences to place mutualists and parasites on the bacterial phylogeny,
we … would occupy different positions on a continuum between mutualism and parasitism …

… increased antagonism between bacteria [20… symbionts along this continuum operates in
natural assemblages. In this study, we used a lepidopteran larval host and a symbiotic bacterium…

… in bacteria (transitions in which environmental bacteria … of bacterial mutualism from other
types of bacterial lifestyles, (… of bacterial mutualism, (iv) the capture of bacterial mutualists …

… The dependence of insects on bacterial partners with … of bacterial mutualism in insects by
considering the possible alternatives that may compensate for the dependence on bacterial …

… with symbiotic bacteria very closely related to symbionts C, D … associations, an evolutionary
continuum ranging from free-living … mutualistic symbiotic associations. It is plausible that such …

… , and MicG nearly always fell in mutualist to commensal territory. Together, our …
mutualism-parasitism continuum depending on the ecological context, with it more likely to be a …