Harbouring public good mutants within a pathogen population can increase both fitness and virulence

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue DECEMBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Lindsay, Richard J ^a   Kershaw, Michael J ^a   Pawlowska, Bogna J ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a   Gudelj, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MAGNAPORTHE; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; ORYZA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION GENETICS;

GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MAGNAPORTHE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; ORYZA; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 85008431821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.18678     Document Type: Article

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