TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monica Medina
AU  - M. Pilar Francino
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.3389/978-2-88945-015-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 22898
KW  - multicellular host
KW  - symbiology
KW  - holobiont
KW  - marine symbiosis
KW  - insect-microbe symbiosis
KW  - microbiome
KW  - Plant-microbe symbiosis
L1  - http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1822/recent-advances-in-symbiosis-research-integrative-approaches
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57751
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9782889450152
TI  - Recent Advances in Symbiosis Research: Integrative Approachesnull
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