Receptors Mediating Host-Microbiota Communication in the Metaorganism: The Invertebrate Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 Multicellular organisms live in close association with a plethora of microorganism, which have a profound effect on multiple host functions. As such, the microbiota and its host form an intimate functional entity, termed the metaorganism or holobiont ...
Katja Dierking, Lucía Pita
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Exploring the Niche Concept in a Simple Metaorganism [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Organisms and their resident microbial communities - the microbiome - form a complex and mostly stable ecosystem. It is known that the composition of the microbiome and bacterial species abundances can have a major impact on host health and Darwinian ...
Peter Deines +2 more
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The intricate triangular interaction between protective microbe, pathogen and host determines fitness of the metaorganism [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 The microbiota shapes host biology in numerous ways. One example is protection against pathogens, which is likely critical for host fitness in consideration of the ubiquity of pathogens.
Carola Petersen +2 more
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Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students [PDF]
BioEssays, 2023 Meet the Metaorganism is a web-based learning app that combines three fundamental biological concepts (coevolution, community dynamics, and immune system) with latest scientific findings using the metaorganism as a central case study.
Susanne Helen Landis, Thomas C G Bosch
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The archaeome in metaorganism research, with a focus on marine models and their bacteria–archaea interactions [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyMetaorganism research contributes substantially to our understanding of the interaction between microbes and their hosts, as well as their co-evolution.
Corinna Bang +2 more
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Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Plant–Microbiome Interactions to Improve Phytoremediation: Engineering the Metaorganism [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Phytoremediation is a promising technology to clean-up contaminated soils based on the synergistic actions of plants and microorganisms. However, to become a widely accepted, and predictable remediation alternative, a deeper understanding of the plant ...
Sofie Thijs +2 more
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Marine bacteriophages disturb the associated microbiota of Aurelia aurita with a recoverable effect on host morphology [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe concept of the metaorganism describes a multicellular host and its diverse microbial community, which form one biological unit with a combined genetic repertoire that significantly influences health and survival of the host.
Melissa Stante +3 more
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Host and microbiome jointly contribute to environmental adaptation [PDF]
ISME Journal, 2023 Most animals and plants have associated microorganisms, collectively referred to as their microbiomes, which can provide essential functions. Given their importance, host-associated microbiomes have the potential to contribute substantially to adaptation
Carola Petersen +2 more
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Friends or Foes—Microbial Interactions in Nature [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Microorganisms are present in nearly every niche on Earth and mainly do not exist solely but form communities of single or mixed species. Within such microbial populations and between the microbes and a eukaryotic host, various microbial interactions ...
Nancy Weiland-Bräuer
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Microbial community changes correlate with impaired host fitness of Aurelia aurita after environmental challenge [PDF]
Animal Microbiome, 2023 Climate change globally endangers certain marine species, but at the same time, such changes may promote species that can tolerate and adapt to varying environmental conditions.
Nicole Pinnow +3 more
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