Plants and animals: A different taste for microbes?

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 353-360

  Zipfel, Cyril ^a,b   Felix, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OOMYCETES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OOMYCETES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 20444493980     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2005.05.004     Document Type: Review

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