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The Red King hypothesis is the opposite idea to the Red Queen hypothesis, where mutualistic and symbiotic interactions favor the fitness of a set of individuals through slow evolution, as opposed to having competitive interactions or having an "arms race" It has been described that individuals from different communities can establish positive interactions for long periods of time when there is a great benefit for both parties, .​, also through mutual help, individuals from different species (communities) can share different tasks to build a niche, avoiding spending energy competing and increasing your resilience to environmental stressl​.

The type of interaction between species determines how fast they coevolve. Parasites and their hosts co-evolve more rapidly, and partners in a mutualistic relationship may evolve more slowly.

The Red King effect holds that slower-evolving species obtain a higher proportion of long-term benefits compared to competing fast-evolving species.

It has been described that the effects of Red Queen and Red King can interchange with each other at the convenience of the species, their effects also vary during the life time of the populations, so the changes are also reflected in their evolution rates. ​.

An attempt has been made to identify why there is an alternation between the effects of Red Queen and Red King and some studies postulate that it is mainly due to environmental variables such as access to resources and environmental conditions, as postulated by the mutualism-parasitism-continuum hypothesis.

An example of the Red King hypothesis is the microbialite and coral communities that are assemblages of different species that can persist in community for thousands of years as well as some facilitating organisms such as desert plants and mycorrhizae..

Véase también

 * Red Queen Hypothesis
 * Black Queen Hypothesis
 * Mutual aid
 * Coevolution