Deathly Drool: Evolutionary and ecological basis of septic bacteria in Komodo dragon mouths

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Bull, J J ^a   Jessop, Tim S ^b   Whiteley, Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; KOMODO DRAGON; LIFE HISTORY; LIZARD; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PREY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYPERSALIVATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH;

SQUAMATA; UNGULATA; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; SEPSIS; SIALORRHEA;

EID: 77955291478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011097     Document Type: Article

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