Neutrality in the Metaorganism.

Almost all animals and plants are inhabited by diverse communities of microorganisms, the microbiota, thereby forming an integrated entity, the metaorganism. Natural selection should favor hosts that shape the community composition of these microbes to promote a beneficial host-microbe symbiosis. In...

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Main Authors: Michael Sieber, Lucía Pita, Nancy Weiland-Bräuer, Philipp Dirksen, Jun Wang, Benedikt Mortzfeld, Sören Franzenburg, Ruth A Schmitz, John F Baines, Sebastian Fraune, Ute Hentschel, Hinrich Schulenburg, Thomas C G Bosch, Arne Traulsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000298