Incorporating the process of vertical transmission into understanding of host-symbiont dynamics

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1121-1128

  Gundel, P E ^a   Rudgers, J A ^b   Ghersa, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENDOPHYTE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; FUNGUS; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960699345     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19299.x     Document Type: Article

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