David J. Miller / Thomas C. G. Bosch
The Holobiont Imperative
- Springer Vienna
- 2016
- Gebunden
- 168 Seiten
- ISBN 9783709118948
This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal- bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals from simple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but consist of complex communities of many species that likely evolved during a billion years of coexistence. Defining the individual microbe-host conversations in these consortia, is a challenging but necessary step on the path to understanding the function of the associations as a whole. The hologenome theory of evolution considers the holobiont with its hologenome as a unit of selection in evolution. This new view
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