Towards an evolutionary model of animal-associated microbiomes

Entropy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 570-594

  Yeoman, Carl J ^a   Chia, Nicholas ^a,b   Yildirim, Suleyman ^a   Berg Miller, Margret E ^a   Kent, Angela ^a   Stumpf, Rebecca ^a   Leigh, Steven R ^a   Nelson, Karen E ^c   White, Bryan A ^a   Wilson, Brenda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal; Complexity; Ecology; Evolution; Interdependency; Microbiome; Modularity; Multi level selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953748339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e13030570     Document Type: Review

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