BIOL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anopheles, Wild Type, Mitochondrion
21 Apr 2016
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Symboises - close interaction between species over their life histories. Wild type - in the absence of the infection (gametocytes) they can produce over 50% more offspring. Expected to increase in transgenic anopheles mosquitoes (impair transmission) Mutualism (could be hostile but turn in to a mutualism i. e. mitochondria. Ants can farm aphids, fungi and plants. Ants can take spores of the fungi and help propagate and cultivate them, most fungi are populated around ant populations due to this mutualism. Ants that are around the acacia trees help protect it from other predators and takes out potential competitors, they form a ring around the bottom of the tree that help protect it. Ants that live on the acacia tree can"t digest sugars but the tree itself give the ants the enzyme. The tree disables the ant due to their enzymes and make the ants dependent. Takes a lot of input to get to the secondary consumer level.
