Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities

• Main Author: David G. Biron (auth)
• Other Authors: Kevin D Lafferty (auth), Telesphore Sime Ngando (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Foodweb dynamics; pathogens; Viruses; Parasites; aquatic ecosystems; microbial ecology; Emerging diseases; microbiome; Parasite host interactions; Aquaculture
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Next Generation Sequencing technologies are increasingly revealing that microbial taxa likely to be parasites or symbionts are probably much more prevalent and diverse than previously thought. Every well studied free-living species has parasites; parasites themselves can be parasitized. As a rule of...