Modeling endosymbioses: Insights and hypotheses from theoretical approaches
Fig 3
Identifying potential mechanisms.
(A) Sketch illustrating 2 models for the growth of an endosymbiont under different nutrient concentrations with experimental results (inspired by [15]); model B is a better fit for the data. (B) Schematic showing how models can propose mechanisms for an observed phenomenon when the full details of the underlying mechanism are unknown. More than 1 model system can be explored to see when the outputs match the observations. (C) An example hypothesis generated for the regulation of endosymbionts where the primary mechanism is currently unknown.