Getting the Hologenome Concept Right: an Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Hosts and Their Microbiomes

ABSTRACT Given the complexity of host-microbiota symbioses, scientists and philosophers are asking questions at new biological levels of hierarchical organization—what is a holobiont and hologenome? When should this vocabulary be applied? Are these concepts a null hypothesis for host-microbe systems...

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Main Authors: Kevin R. Theis, Nolwenn M. Dheilly, Jonathan L. Klassen, Robert M. Brucker, John F. Baines, Thomas C. G. Bosch, John F. Cryan, Scott F. Gilbert, Charles J. Goodnight, Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Jan Sapp, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, Eugene Rosenberg, Seth R. Bordenstein
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7dba59b026c644c7a5bf4bc6316e1617
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