Are biologists in 'future shock'? Symbiosis integrates biology across domains

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 789-792

  McFall Ngai, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HOST SELECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 52049102283     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1982     Document Type: Article

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