Community specificity: Life and afterlife effects of genes

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 271-281

  Whitham, Thomas G ^a   Gehring, Catherine A ^a   Lamit, Louis J ^a   Wojtowicz, Todd ^a   Evans, Luke M ^a   Keith, Arthur R ^a   Smith, David Solance ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862779144     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.01.005     Document Type: Review

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