On Holobionts, Holospecies, and Holoniches: the Role of Microbial Symbioses in Ecology and Evolution.

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Author	Koide, Roger T.
Abstract	My goal in writing this is to increase awareness of the roles played by microbial symbionts in eukaryote ecology and evolution. Most eukaryotes host one or more species of symbiotic microorganisms, including prokaryotes and fungi. Many of these have profound impacts on the biology of their hosts. For example, microbial symbionts may expand the niches of their hosts, cause rapid adaptation of the host to the environment and re-adaptation to novel conditions via symbiont swapping, facilitate speciation, and fundamentally alter our concept of the species. In some cases, microbial symbionts and multicellular eukaryote hosts have a mutual dependency, which has obvious conservation implications. Hopefully, this contribution will stimulate a reevaluation of important ecological and evolutionary concepts including niche, adaptation, the species, speciation, and conservation of multicellular eukaryotes.
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ISSN	00953628
Journal	Microbial Ecology [Microb Ecol]
Volume Number	85
DOI	10.1007/s00248-022-02005-9
PubMed Central reference number	PMC10167095
Issue Number	4
PubMed reference number	35396623
e-ISSN	1432184X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2022-04-08
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Open
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Subject Keyword	Adaptation Conservation Niche Speciation Species concept Symbiosis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Soil Science Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics