Review article. Marine sponges as models for commensal microbe-host interactions

Symbiosis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Schmitt, Susanne ^a   Wehrl, Markus ^a   Bayer, Kristina ^a   Siegl, Alexander ^a   Hentschel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Commensal; Microbial consortia; Porifera; Sponge; Symbionts

Indexed keywords

COMMENSALISM; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODELING; SPONGE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; PORIFERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34347364455     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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