In Kathleen Keeler's Cost-Benefit Model of Mutualism, the Condition for Persistence

question 1

Multiple Choice

In Kathleen Keeler's cost-benefit model of mutualism, the condition for persistence of mutualists is pw_mw + qw_mu > w_nm. The parameters p and q represent the

• A) cost and benefit of the mutualism.
• B) fitness of successful and unsuccessful mutualists.
• C) frequency of "mutualist" and "nonmutualist" alleles in the population.
• D) proportion of successful and unsuccessful mutualists in the population.
• E) amount of herbivore protection provided by ant and non-ant defenses.

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