HOLOBIONTS. “Three claims might be taken as implicit in this language: (1) that many of the microbial and macrobial taxa associated in such multi-species assemblages are metabolically (or developmentally or structurally) interdependent, (2) that such interdependence has co-evolved as a consequence of their association, and (3) that holobionts can be considered units of selection.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022