It takes a village: Ecological and fitness impacts of multipartite mutualism

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-178

  Hussa, Elizabeth A ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Defensive mutualism; Holobiont; Microbiota; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; BIOENERGY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENDOCYTOBIOSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HERPES VIRUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LONGEVITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SALINITY; SEA ANEMONE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYMBIOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84882672423     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092412-155723     Document Type: Article

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