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A metasystem of framework model organisms to study emergence of new host-microbe adaptations.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2008
Gopalan Suresh, Ausubel Frederick M
Abstract excerpt
An unintended consequence of global industrialization and associated societal rearrangements is new interactions of microbes and potential hosts (especially mammals and plants), providing an opportunity for the rapid emergence of host-microbe adaptation and eventual establishment of new microbe-related diseases. We describe a new model system comprising the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and several microbes,...
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