Harnessing Evolution to Elucidate the Consequences of Symbiosis

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Gerardo, Nicole M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS RESISTANCE; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BUCHNERA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGEVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUCHNERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LONGEVITY; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84924057713     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002066     Document Type: Review

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