Recent Advances in Symbiosis Research: Integrative Approaches

• Autore: Monica Medina
• Pubblicazione: Frontiers Media SA, 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Microbiology (non-medical)
• Soggetto non controllato: holobiont; insect-microbe symbiosis; marine symbiosis; microbiome; multicellular host; Plant-microbe symbiosis; symbiology
• Persona (resp. second.): M. Pilar Francino
• Sommario/riassunto: Traditionally, symbiosis research has been undertaken by researchers working independently of one another and often focused on a few cases of bipartite host-symbiont interactions. New model systems are emerging that will enable us to fill fundamental gaps in symbiosis research and theory, focusing on a broad range of symbiotic interactions and including a variety of multicellular hosts and their complex microbial communities. In this Research Topic, we invited researchers to contribute their work on diverse symbiotic networks, since there are a large variety of symbioses with major roles in the proper functioning of terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems, and we wished the Topic to provide a venue for communicating findings across diverse taxonomic groups. A synthesis of recent investigations in symbiosis can impact areas such as agriculture, where a basic understanding of plant-microbe symbiosis will provide foundational information on the increasingly important issue of nitrogen fixation; climate change, where anthropogenic factors are threatening the survival of marine symbiotic ecosystems such as coral reefs; animal and human health, where unbalances in host microbiomes are being increasingly associated with a wide range of diseases; and biotechnology, where process optimization can be achieved through optimization of symbiotic partnerships. Overall, our vision was to produce a volume of works that will help define general principles of symbiosis within a new conceptual framework, in the road to finally establish symbiology as an overdue central discipline of biological science.
• Altri titoli varianti: Recent Advances in Symbiosis Research
• Titolo autorizzato: Recent Advances in Symbiosis Research: Integrative Approaches
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910220057303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II