Learning how to live together: Genomic insights into prokaryote-animal symbioses

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 218-229

  Moya, Andrés ^a,b,c   Peretó, Juli ^a,c   Gil, Rosario ^a,b,c   Latorre, Amparo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSPHERE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARASITISM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; GENOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 39449118068     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2319     Document Type: Review

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