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‘Recognition’ in the establishment of a symbiosis has been defined as the set of phenomena resulting in the expression of specificity or selectivity in associations between hosts and symbionts (Smith, 1981). The term has a somewhat different meaning in discussions of ‘cell-to-cell’ recognition, where it has the rather precise connotation of a process involving the transmission from one cell of information which elicits a response from another cell. The information is usually in the form of a particular molecule (the signal) whose binding by the ‘target’ cell constitutes ‘recognition’ and completely determines the specificity of the cell-to-cell interaction.
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Smith, D.C. (1988). Concepts Leading to an Understanding of Recognition and Signalling Between Hosts and Symbionts. In: Scannerini, S., Smith, D., Bonfante-Fasolo, P., Gianinazzi-Pearson, V. (eds) Cell to Cell Signals in Plant, Animal and Microbial Symbiosis. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73154-9_28
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