Resolving the infection process reveals striking differences in the contribution of environment, genetics and phylogeny to host-parasite interactions

BMC Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Duneau, David ^a   Luijckx, Pepijn ^a   Ben Ami, Frida ^b   Laforsch, Christian ^c   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PASTEURIA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARASITES; PASTEURIA; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79951806354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-11     Document Type: Article

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