Housekeeping mutualisms: Do more symbionts facilitate host performance?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Stier, Adrian C ^a   Gil, Michael A ^a   McKeon, C Seabird ^a,c   Lemer, Sarah ^b   Leray, Matthieu ^b   Mills, Suzanne C ^b   Osenberg, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHEUS LOTTINI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; CRAB; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING SYSTEM; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; POCILLOPORA VERRUCOSA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHRIMP; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TRAPEZIA SERENEI; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHEUS LOTTINI; ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); TRAPEZIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84859859350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032079     Document Type: Article

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