Marx, Christopher JDouglas, Sarah2014-06-062014-06-062014Douglas, Sarah Michael. 2014. Parallelism and Epistasis in the de novo Evolution of Cooperation between Two Species. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11588http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274539Resolving the genetic and mechanistic bases of complex biological behaviors remains a central challenge in the post-genomic era. Among these is the emergence of interspecies cooperation, a feature common across levels of biological organization. Of the numerous examples afforded by nature, microbes arguably provide the greatest ability to connect underlying genotypes to cooperative phenotypes.en-USBiologyMolecular biologyBacterialCooperationEpistasisMethionineParallelismEvolutionDevelopmentThesis or Dissertation2014-06-06