The symbiont side of symbiosis: Do microbes really benefit?

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Garcia, Justine R ^a   Gerardo, Nicole M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Host microbe interactions; Microbial fitness; Mutualism; Symbiont transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SYMBIONT; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84907984943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00510     Document Type: Article

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