Endosymbiosis: The Evil within

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Valdivia, Raphael H ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOPUS; RICE; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIALES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOTOXINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOPUS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS;

EID: 34249704528     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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