Interactions between tick and transmitted pathogens evolved to minimise competition through nested and coherent networks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a   De La Fuente, José ^b,c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^d   Cabezas Cruz, Alejandro ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES B; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84930221738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10361     Document Type: Article

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