The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic

Part I. Understanding Interspecies Relationships

1. How Well Do Surrogate Hosts Serve as Model Systems for Understanding Pathogenicity
Christine Fink, Thomas Roeder

2. Host–Symbiont Relationships: Understanding the Change from Guest to Pest
Robin M. Overstreet, Jeffrey M. Lotz

Part II. Opportunistic Pathogenicity in the Aquatic World

3. Opportunistic Infections in Elasmobranchs
Joanna Borucinska

4. Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens of Fish
Nicolas Derome, Jeff Gauthier, Sébastien Boutin, Martin Llewellyn

5. Fungal Secondary Invaders of Fish
Nicolas Derome, Jeff Gauthier, Sébastien Boutin, Martin Llewellyn

6. Opportunistic Pathogens of Marine Mammals
Stephanie Venn-Watson

Part III. Opportunistic Pathogenicity in the Terrestrial World

7. Opportunistic Pathogens of Terrestrial Plants
Amy O. Charkowski

8. Non-spore-Forming Bacterial Entomopathogens: Their Toxins, Hosts and the Environment: Why Be a Pathogen
Mark R. H. Hurst

9. Opportunistic Infections of Avians
Stephen M. Chege

10. Opportunistic Algae, Fungi and Ichthyosporea Associated with Mammalian Livestock Disease
Christon J. Hurst

11. Opportunisitic Pathogens of Humans
Kristin M. Burkholder, Mary X. D. O’Riordan

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Animal Physiology, Plant Pathology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology