Year: 2015
Type: editorial
Abstract: Bacteria are one of the major factors shaping the evolutionary landscape of all eukaryotic organisms including humans. Bacterial epidemics, which have taken hundreds of millions of human lives in the observable history, are arguably some of the most vivid and cruel manifestations of natural selection. The history of co-evolution of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms is ingrained in their organization as the immune system from one side, and effector molecules supremely tuned to manipulate the essential pathways and cascades (e.g. toxins) from the other.
Source: Oncotarget
Institutions: The Ohio State University, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Language: English
Subfield: Microbiology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2299154692