ReviewMicrobial ecology2023
On Holobionts, Holospecies, and Holoniches: the Role of Microbial Symbioses in Ecology and Evolution.
Review in Microbial ecology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Holobiontic Intercellular Relationships Between the Oral Cavity and the Rest of the Human Organism: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- The Putative Involvement of Bacterial Symbionts in Cantharidin Biogenesis: An Explorative Study in Meloidae Insects.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Microbial communities experienced during early development shape the host immune system and epigenome.iScience · 2025Article
- From Microbial Consortia to Ecosystem Resilience: The Integrative Roles of Holobionts in Stress Biology.Biology · 2025Article
- The acute microbiota injury.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- Functional team selection as a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Microbiome transfer from native to invasive species may increase invasion risk.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Symbiotic microbiota and odor ensure mating in time for giant pandas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
My goal in writing this is to increase awareness of the roles played by microbial symbionts in eukaryote ecology and evolution. Most eukaryotes host one or more species of symbiotic microorganisms, including prokaryotes and fungi. Many of these have profound impacts on the biology of their hosts. For example, microbial symbionts may expand the niches of their hosts, cause rapid adaptation of the host to the environment and re-adaptation to novel conditions via symbiont swapping, facilitate speciation, and fundamentally alter our concept of the species. In some cases, microbial symbionts and multicellular eukaryote hosts have a mutual dependency, which has obvious conservation implications. Hopefully, this contribution will stimulate a reevaluation of important ecological and evolutionary concepts including niche, adaptation, the species, speciation, and conservation of multicellular eukaryotes.
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