Thomas C. G. Bosch - Böcker

This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of protist-, animal-, and plant-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of biology. The establishment and maintenance of these interactions and their contributions to the health and survival of all partners relies on continuous cell-to-cell communication between them. This dialogue may be concerned with all aspects of the biology of both partners. The book includes chapters devoted to exploring, explaining, and exposing these dialogues across a broad spectrum of plant and animal eukaryotes to a broad field of biologists.Key Features:Explores the nature of the interactions between eukaryotic hosts and their microbial symbiontsExamines the links between prostist, animal, and plant evolution and microbial communitiesReviews specific taxa and the microbial diversity associated with these taxaIllustrates the role microbes play in the physiology and etiology of several model speciesIncludes chapters by an international team of leading scholarsThe Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of protist-, animal-, and plant-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of biology. The establishment and maintenance of these interactions and their contributions to the health and survival of all partners relies on continuous cell-to-cell communication between them. This dialogue may be concerned with all aspects of the biology of both partners. The book includes chapters devoted to exploring, explaining, and exposing these dialogues across a broad spectrum of plant and animal eukaryotes to a broad field of biologists.Key Features:Explores the nature of the interactions between eukaryotic hosts and their microbial symbiontsExamines the links between prostist, animal, and plant evolution and microbial communitiesReviews specific taxa and the microbial diversity associated with these taxaIllustrates the role microbes play in the physiology and etiology of several model speciesIncludes chapters by an international team of leading scholarsThe Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Wir sind viele und haben mindestens ebenso viele Bakterienzellen wie eigene Zellen in unserem Körper. Was weiß man über die Funktion, die die Mikroben für Mensch und Tier hat? Thomas Bosch, Evolutions- und Entwicklungsbiologe und Experte auf dem Gebiet der Mikrobiomforschung, blickt bei dieser Frage auf die Fülle an Forschungsergebnissen und auch auf seine eigene Forschung zurück. Wir werden dazu angeregt, beim Nachdenken über die ansteigende Zahl an „Lifestyle“ Erkrankungen in einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz die Bedeutung des Mikrobioms zu berücksichtigen. Wir sind viele und wir waren schon immer viele, auch in der Evolutionsgeschichte. Ohne Mikroben können wir uns nicht normal entwickeln und sind krank. Wie wir leben und uns ernähren hat starken Einfluss auf die Mikroorganismen. Hinter dieser Erkenntnis steckt auch die Perspektive, durch Eingriffe in das Mikrobiom unsere Gesundheit zu erhalten. Die Komplexität der Mikrobiomforschung kann als kompakte Erzählung schwer zu verdauen sein. Dieses Buch kann es.

Thisbook examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal-bacterialinteractions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, isfundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals fromsimple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but consistof complex communities of many species that likely evolved during a billionyears of coexistence. Defining the individual microbe-host conversations inthese consortia, is a challenging but necessary step on the path tounderstanding the function of the associations as a whole. The hologenometheory of evolution considers the holobiont with its hologenome as a unit ofselection in evolution. This new view may have profound impact on understandinga strictly microbe/symbiont-dependent life style and its evolutionaryconsequences. It may also affect the way how we approach complex environmentaldiseases from corals (coral bleaching) to human (inflammatory bowel diseaseetc). The book is written for scientists as well as medically interestedpersons in the field of immunobiology, microbiology, evolutionary biology,evolutionary medicine and corals.

Thisbook examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal-bacterialinteractions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, isfundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals fromsimple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but consistof complex communities of many species that likely evolved during a billionyears of coexistence. Defining the individual microbe-host conversations inthese consortia, is a challenging but necessary step on the path tounderstanding the function of the associations as a whole. The hologenometheory of evolution considers the holobiont with its hologenome as a unit ofselection in evolution. This new view may have profound impact on understandinga strictly microbe/symbiont-dependent life style and its evolutionaryconsequences. It may also affect the way how we approach complex environmentaldiseases from corals (coral bleaching) to human (inflammatory bowel diseaseetc). The book is written for scientists as well as medically interestedpersons in the field of immunobiology, microbiology, evolutionary biology,evolutionary medicine and corals.