Cloning of the unculturable parasite Pasteuria ramosa and its Daphnia host reveals extreme genotype-genotype interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-131

  Luijckx, Pepijn ^a   Ben Ami, Frida ^b   Mouton, Laurence ^a,c   Du Pasquier, Louis ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Daphnia magna; Host; Parasite; Pasteuria ramosa; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; PASTEURIA RAMOSA;

EID: 78751694229     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01561.x     Document Type: Article

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