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Inter-Kingdom chemical communication in the coral holobiont.
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Therefore, sustaining these 'hidden' specialists becomes advantageous under thermal stress conditions because the coral holobiont is pre-adapted to thermal stress.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Robert van Woesik et al. 2010
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Moreover, we assess whether more specialist symbionts are lost from the coral (holobiont) under a warming ocean.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Robert van Woesik et al. 2010
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The slug genome can therefore be seen as a holobiont of slug genes and algal genes.
Signs of the Times 2010
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The partners are known as symbionts and the sum of the partnership as the holobiont.
Signs of the Times 2010
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Symbiotic relationships have evolutionary implications for the holobiont.
Signs of the Times 2010
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In light of these findings, Middlebrook et al. (2008) say their study "conclusively demonstrates that thermal stress events two weeks and one week prior to a bleaching event provide significantly increased thermal tolerance to the coral holobiont, suggesting that short time-scale thermal adaptation can have profound effects on coral bleaching."
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To be any kind of animal at all is to be within obligate mutualisms with a whole range of other plants, animals, and microbes and living as a holobiont, not as a single organism or individual.
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If you want to live to a grand old age, it might help to think of yourself not as a human, but rather a holobiont – a collective of human cells plus the trillions of microbes that live in and on you.
Why caring for your microbiome is crucial if you want to live to 100 Helen Thomson 2025
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