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The Evolution of Rotting: Why Food Spoils

Why does food spoil? Today, we explore the evolutionary arms race between vertebrates and microbes that causes fruit to rot, seeds to mold, and meat to spoil. I hope you enjoy! ================= MAIN REFERENCES ================= Janzen, Daniel H. "Why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils." The American Naturalist 111.980 (1977): 691-713. Janzen, Daniel H. "Why food rots." Natural History 88.6 (1979): 60-65. ======================= ADDITIONAL REFERENCES ======================= Artiuch, Paul, and Samuel Kornstein. "Sustainable approaches to reducing food waste in India." J. Mass. Inst. Technol 10 (2012). Cade, Nicky. “Holy moldy! What happens when you eat mold?” Greatist.com (2021). Garcha, S. "Control of food spoilage molds using lactobacillus bacteriocins." Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 12.3 (2018): 1365-1373. Ohsaki, Naota. "Preferential predation of female butterflies and the evolution of Batesian mimicry." Nature 378.6553 (1995): 173-175. Ruxton, Graeme D., et al. "Why fruit rots: theoretical support for Janzen's theory of microbe–macrobe competition." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281.1782 (2014): 20133320. Sherratt, Thomas N., David M. Wilkinson, and Roderick S. Bain. "Why fruits rot, seeds mold and meat spoils: a reappraisal." Ecological Modelling 192.3-4 (2006): 618-626. Waldbauer, G. P. "Mimicry of hymenopteran antennae by Syrphidae." Psyche 77.1 (1970): 45-49. Zhongming, Zhu, et al. "UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021." (2021). ============== IMAGE CREDITS ============== https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilomy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co... https://pixabay.com/illustrations/woo... https://pixabay.com/photos/mold-chees... https://pixabay.com/photos/dough-flou... https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sto... https://pixabay.com/photos/age-bacter... https://pixabay.com/photos/apple-frui... https://pixabay.com/photos/carcass-sk... https://www.travelpulse.com/news/ente... ========== CHAPTERS ========== 0:00 Introduction 1:13 Why food rots 4:23 Mold, Batesian mimicry, and arms races 7:36 Conclusions Website: https://danielsmithecology.github.io/