THE HOLOBIONT. “If associated microbiomes affect the fitness of the multi-cellular eukaryote host, then even among multi-cellular eukaryotes the primary unit of evolutionary survival and ecological function is not Simpson’s “objectively real” individual, but rather the holobiont—the composite of one multi-cellular eukaryote organism and its associated microbiome communities.”
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