%0 Journal Article
%T The Microbial Zoo in the C. elegans Intestine: Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses
%A David Wang
%A Hongbing Jiang
%J Archive of "Viruses".
%D 2018
%R 10.3390/v10020085
%X C. elegans is an invaluable model organism that has been a driving force in many fundamental biological discoveries. However, it is only in the past two decades that it has been applied to host¨Cpathogen interaction studies. These studies have been facilitated by the discoveries of natural microbes that infect C. elegans, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Notably, many of these microbes share a common site of infection, the C. elegans intestine. Furthermore, the recent descriptions of a natural gut microbiota in C. elegans raise the possibility that this could be a novel model system for microbiome and trans-kingdom interaction studies. Here we review studies of C. elegans host¨Cmicrobe interactions with a particular focus on the intestine
%K host¨Cpathogen interaction
%K C. elegans
%K intestine
%K bacteria
%K fungi
%K viruses
%K microbiome
%K trans-kingdom interactions
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850392/