Sentences with word «holobiont»

We argue that «active» management using assisted migration of holobionts adapted to the known extremes in temperature and acidity should be considered.
Important gradients in stress levels, and therefore local adaptation of the coral holobiont exist on coral reefs across today's oceans.
Although it does not change the basic rules of evolution, holobionts do have a way to respond to environmental challenges that is not available to individual organisms: They can alter the composition of their bacterial communities.
Warming to 31 °C reduced holobiont net primary productivity (NPP) by 60 % due to increased respiration which decreased host % carbon by 15 % with no apparent cost to the symbiont.
The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome — M A Cregger — Microbiome
My research utilises genomic and metabolomic techniques to determine how the coral holobiont responds to anthropogenic changes, including increasing temperatures, ocean acidification and eutrophication.
Coral must be seen as an «eco-species» (aka holobiont) that emerges from the synergy of the coral and its varied symbionts.
Host biology in light of the microbiome: Ten principles of holobionts and hologenomes.
Coral - associated microbial communities, including protists, bacteria, archaea and viruses, are important components of the coral holobiont that influence the health of corals and coral reef ecosystems.
An organism, Bordenstein and Theis argued, includes the microbes that live in and on it, a massive conglomerate of diverse parts called a holobiont.
«We have known for a while some of the details as to how high temperatures hurt some symbiotic algae inside the coral, but how multiple stressors affect all three components of the holobiont and how such effects may interact across these players is a big question for the field,» said co-author Mark Warner, associate director of the Marine Bioscience Program at the University of Delaware.
The outlook for these uniquely adapted holobionts is bleak.
We no longer think of coral as a symbiosis between two organisms, but a symbiosis among three organisms, what we call a holobiont,» Grottoli explained.
So mutations in the microbiome that affect the fitness of a holobiont are just as important as mutations in the host's genome.
Microbiologists have coined new terms for these collective entities — holobiont — and for their genomes — hologenome.
At the American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in June, he convened the inaugural session on «Holobionts and Their Hologenomes» and ASM's flagship journal mBio plans to publish a special issue on the topic in the coming year.
The first principle they advance is that holobionts and hologenomes are fundamental units of biological organization.
For example, if a holobiont is attacked by a pathogen that the host can not defend against, another symbiont may fulfill the job by manufacturing a toxin that can kill the invader.
In the article «Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes» published online Aug. 18 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biology.
In this light, the microbes are as much part of the holobiont immune system as the host immune genes themselves.
Holobionts and their hologenomes: Evolution with mixed modes of inheritance — Karen Luisa Haag — Genetics and Molecular Biology
Together, the coral holobiont has dominated oligotrophic tropical marine habitats.
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