Cooperation, communication, and co-evolution: Grand challenges in microbial symbiosis research

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Webster, Nicole S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Challenge; Co evolution; Holobiont; Host; Meta organism; Microbe; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMOAUTOTROPH; COMMENSALISM; EGG LAYING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84899697022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00164     Document Type: Article

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