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Open Highlights: Evolving as a holobiont

Published February 28, 2017 Curated Collections

The composition and function of microbiomes are critical for most animals and plants, leading some to suggest that hosts and their microbiomes should be considered as single ecological unit—the holobiont. This Open Highlights Collection explores how relationships between hosts and microbes have evolved over time. Open Highlights use recent PLOS Biology research articles as keystones around which to nucleate a short synthesis of up to ten related research articles from other PLOS journals and from the wider Open Access corpus.

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PLOS Biology Evolving as a holobiont
February 28, 2017 Lauren A. Richardson

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2000225

PLOS Biology Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History
November 18, 2016 Andrew W. Brooks, Kevin D. Kohl, Robert M. Brucker, Edward J. van Opstal, Seth R. Bordenstein

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10.3389/fmicb.2016.00634

Front. Microbiol. Frontiers | Experimental Evolution on a Wild Mammal Species Results in Modifications of Gut Microbial Communities | Microbial Symbioses
May 4, 2016 Kevin D. Kohl, Edyta T. Sadowska, Agata M. Rudolf, M. Denise Dearing, Paweł Koteja
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10.1371/journal.pone.0089862

PLOS ONE Body Weight Selection Affects Quantitative Genetic Correlated Responses in Gut Microbiota
March 7, 2014 He Meng, Lele Zhao, Wenjing Zhao, Chuan He, Christa F. Honaker, Zhengxiao Zhai, Zikui Sun, Paul B. Siegel, Yan Zhang
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004365

PLOS Computational Biology Neutral Models of Microbiome Evolution
July 22, 2015 Qinglong Zeng, Jeet Sukumaran, Steven Wu, Allen Rodrigo
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10.3389/fmicb.2016.01622

Front. Microbiol Frontiers | Host-Specific Functional Significance of Caenorhabditis Gut Commensals | Microbial Symbioses
October 17, 2016 Maureen Berg, Xiao Ying Zhou, Michael Shapira
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10.1186/s13059-015-0759-1

Genome Biology Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites | Genome Biology | Full Text
September 15, 2015 Ran Blekhman, Julia K. Goodrich, Katherine Huang, Qi Sun, Robert Bukowski, Jordana T. Bell, Timothy D. Spector, Alon Keinan, Ruth E. Ley, Dirk Gevers, Andrew G. Clark
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002352

PLOS Biology Microbial Hub Taxa Link Host and Abiotic Factors to Plant Microbiome Variation
January 20, 2016 Matthew T. Agler, Jonas Ruhe, Samuel Kroll, Constanze Morhenn, Sang-Tae Kim, Detlef Weigel, Eric M. Kemen
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005846

PLOS Genetics Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance
February 18, 2016 Rainer Roehe, Richard J. Dewhurst, Carol-Anne Duthie, John A. Rooke, Nest McKain, Dave W. Ross, Jimmy J. Hyslop, Anthony Waterhouse, Tom C. Freeman, Mick Watson, R. John Wallace

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