LEADER 03644nam 2200409z- 450 001 9910220055303321 005 20231214133408.0 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216225 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/46669 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216225 100 $a20202102d2016 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpigenetics as a Deep Intimate Dialogue between Host and Symbionts 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2016 215 $a1 electronic resource (98 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 311 $a2-88919-875-8 330 $aSymbiosis is an intimate relationship between different living entities and is widespread in virtually all organisms. It was critical for the origin and diversification of Eukaryotes and represents a major driving force in evolution. Indeed, symbiosis may support a wide range of biological processes, including those underlying the physiology, development, reproduction, health, behavior, ecology and evolution of the organisms involved in the relationship. Although often confused with mutualism, when both organisms benefit from the association, symbiosis actually encompasses several and variable relationships. Among them is parasitism, when one organism benefits but the other is harmed, and commensalism, when one organism benefits and the other remains unaffected. Even if many symbiotic lifestyles do exist in nature, in many cases the intimacy between the partners is so deep that the ?symbiont? (sensu strictu) resides into the tissues and/or cells of the other partner. Since the partners frequently belong to different kingdoms, e.g. bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses living in association with animal and plant hosts, their shared ?language? should be a basic and ancient form of communication able to effectively blur the boundaries between extremely different living entities. In recent years studies on the role of epigenetics in shaping host-symbiont interactions have been flourishing. Epigenetic changes include, but are not limited to, DNA methylation, remodelling of chromatin structure through histone chemical modifications and RNA interference. In this E-book we present a series of papers exploring the fascinating developmental and evolutionary relationship between symbionts and hosts, by focusing on the mediating epigenetic processes that enable the communication to be effective and robust at both the individual, the ecological and the evolutionary time scales. In particular, the papers consider the role of epigenetic factors and mechanisms in the interactions among different species, comprising the holobiont and host-parasite relationships. On the whole, since epigenetics is fast-acting and reversible, enabling dynamic developmental communication between hosts and symbionts at several different time scale, we argue that it could account for the enormous plasticity that characterizes the interactions between all the organisms living symbiotically on our planet. 610 $achromatin re-modeling 610 $aDNA Methylation 610 $aholobiont 610 $asymbiosis 610 $ahost-symbiont crosstalk 610 $apathogen 610 $aHistone Modifications 610 $aepigenetics 610 $agenome immunity 700 $aEva Jablonka$4auth$01311252 702 $aIlaria Negri$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220055303321 996 $aEpigenetics as a Deep Intimate Dialogue between Host and Symbionts$93030058 997 $aUNINA