Holes in the hologenome: Why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Douglas, Angela E ^a   Werren, John H ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOLOGENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HOST SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PARTNER FIDELITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOTA; HUMAN; MICROFLORA; PLANT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84965103759     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02099-15     Document Type: Review

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