Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities

• Autor principal: David G. Biron (auth)
• Outros Autores: Kevin D Lafferty (auth), Telesphore Sime Ngando (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Microbiology (non-medical); Foodweb dynamics; pathogens; Viruses; Parasites; aquatic ecosystems; microbial ecology; Emerging diseases; microbiome; Parasite host interactions; Aquaculture
• Acesso em linha: 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...