Role of biotic interactions in generating and maintaining biodiversity

• Author(s): Miskinyte, Migla
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10881
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Document Type: Doctoral thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Gordo, Isabel; Magalhães, Sara
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology.

Microbial populations constantly face pressures imposed by exposure to host immune systems and antibiotics. Thus it is important to have a better understanding of how they can adapt to such pressures. In this context, studying the process of adaptation of commensal bacteria towards becoming a pathogen and how resistance to antibiotics affects bacterial fitness are pressing questions.(...)