The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Moran, Nancy A ^a   Sloan, Daniel B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROFLORA; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOME, MICROBIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84953308141     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002311     Document Type: Article

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