The Frederickson Lab at the University of Toronto

The Frederickson Lab studies the ecology and evolution of mutualisms, or cooperative interactions between species.

How does cooperation evolve and what are the consequences of cooperation for ecological communities? We are broadly interested in all forms of cooperation in biological systems, but research in the Frederickson Lab focuses on the ecology and evolution of mutualism, or cooperation between species. Mutualisms are extremely common in nature—so common, in fact, that every plant and animal on Earth may  ...