'Til death do us part': Coming to terms with symbiotic relationships

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 721-724

  Relman, David A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; EDITORIAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MYCORRHIZAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 52049108512     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1990     Document Type: Editorial

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