Species-specific viromes in the ancestral holobiont Hydra.

Recent evidence showing host specificity of colonizing bacteria supports the view that multicellular organisms are holobionts comprised of the macroscopic host in synergistic interdependence with a heterogeneous and host-specific microbial community. Whereas host-bacteria interactions have been exte...

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Main Authors: Juris A Grasis, Tim Lachnit, Friederike Anton-Erxleben, Yan Wei Lim, Robert Schmieder, Sebastian Fraune, Sören Franzenburg, Santiago Insua, GloriaMay Machado, Matthew Haynes, Mark Little, Robert Kimble, Philip Rosenstiel, Forest L Rohwer, Thomas C G Bosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4208763?pdf=render