The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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 mounting an effective defensive response due to nutritional deprivation, coinfections and seemingly subtle environmental influences like the amounts of sunlight, temperature, and either water or air quality. The effects of environmental changes can be compounded when they necessitate a physical relocation of species, in turn changing the probability of encounter between microbe and host. The change also can result when pathogens, including virus species, either have modified the opportunist or attacked the host's protective natural microflora. The authors discuss these opportunistic interactions and assess their outcomes in both aquatic as well as terrestrial ecosystems, highlighting the impact on plant, invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 3
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Christon J. Hurst
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	357
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-28168-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-28168-2
Barcode:	9783319281681

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