The Holobiont Imperative Perspectives from Early Emerging Animals /

• Main Authors: Bosch, Thomas C. G. (Author), Miller, David J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Cell biology.; Developmental biology.; Zoology.; Biomedicine.; Developmental Biology.; Cell Biology.

This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals from simple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The diversity of animal life
• 3. Origin stories
• 4. Phylosymbiosis from Hydra to man: novel genomic approaches discover the holobiont
• 5. Negotiations between evolving animals and symbionts
• 6. The Hydra holobiont
• 7. Microbes are part of the innate immune system
• 8. Rethinking the origin of immunity
• 9. The coral holobiont
• 10. Are coral reefs doomed?
• 11. Lessons from Hydra and corals
• 12. Hidden impact of viruses.