Multilevel Models for the Distribution of Hosts and Symbionts.

Symbiont occurrence is influenced by host occurrence and vice versa, which leads to correlations in host-symbiont distributions at multiple levels. Interactions between co-infecting symbionts within host individuals can cause correlations in the abundance of two symbiont species across individual ho...

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Main Authors: Maxwell B Joseph, William E Stutz, Pieter T J Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5104364?pdf=render