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The terms specificity and selectivity, which have been used to describe distinct types of cellular behaviour during cell-cell adhesion between animal cells (Garrod and Nicol, 1981), will be used here to describe cellular interactions between symbionts. In our view, specificity describes an interaction in which absolute exclusiveness is expressed; two types of bionts associate only with one another and no other potential combinations between them are observed. In contrast, selectivity describes a situation where bionts interact preferentially with one another. If a host (or vice versa) is presented with a choice of bionts, it will preferentially associate with one over the others.
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Bubrick, P., Frensdorff, A., Galun, M. (1985). Selectivity in the Lichen Symbiosis. In: Brown, D.H. (eds) Lichen Physiology and Cell Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2527-7_22
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