Fitness costs of symbiont switching using entomopathogenic nematodes as a model

BACKGROUND: Steinernematid nematodes form obligate symbioses with bacteria from the genus Xenorhabdus. Together Steinernema nematodes and their bacterial symbionts successfully infect, kill, utilize, and exit their insect hosts. During this process the nematodes and bacteria disassociate requiring t...

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Autores principales: McMullen, John G., Peterson, Brittany F., Forst, Steven, Blair, Heidi Goodrich, Stock, S. Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28412935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0939-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28412935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0939-6

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