The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hurst, Christon J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Aquatic ecology.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Plant pathology.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Ecology.; Animal Physiology.; Plant Pathology.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host.  It examines the triggering events which can factor into these changes, such as reduction in the host’s capacity for...