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Host genotype-specific microbiota do not influence the susceptibility of D. magna to a bacterial pathogen.
Scientific reports - 20 Jun 2018
Sison-Mangus Marilou P, Metzger César M J A, Ebert Dieter
Abstract excerpt
Host-associated microbiota have been claimed to play a role in hosts' responses to parasitic infections, often protecting the hosts from infection. We tested for such a role in the crustacean Daphnia and the parasitic bacterium Pasteuria ramosa, a widely used model system for host-parasite interactions. We first determined the infection phenotype (i.e., resistotype) of eight clonal D. magna genotypes against four...
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